A coup d'état, or blow to the state, is ''a sudden, often violent, takeover of a government''; a coup de grâce is ''a finishing stroke,'' and a coup de main is ''a sudden attack that overwhelms its object by use of surprising force.

Steve Bannon 2018: "flood the zone with shit". https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ef7f31b0012cd51e6c2cfbc296316c21e6e2ace431d29f3eb5a4fadc6dc372fa/0ba1bf86f98f36947a5b8b5e6bc651ce092af4cddecba7eff51a5b2d945d2c7b.webp