Diagonalist coup attempts spanned Germany and Brazil within two months.

Evidence

December 2022 brought news of a foiled plot to overthrow the German government in a violent coup and reinstate the monarchy, a plan cooked up by a diagonalist coalition of heavily armed far-right extremists and conspiratorial fantasists who, like followers of Canada’s QAnon Queen, had convinced themselves that Germany’s current government was itself an illegitimate fantasy. The next month featured a failed insurrection in Brazil, with followers of defeated far-right president Jair Bolsonaro calling for a military coup as they stormed the houses of government. For weeks, Bannon and the War Room posse had been amplifying false claims that the Brazilian election had been rigged and that Lula was staging a Marxist takeover of the continent at the behest of the CCP. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 631

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instances of the diagonalism thesis — monarchist QAnon-influenced German plotters and Bolsonaro insurrectionists, both amplified transnationally by Bannon.