‘There’s a word for the President of a country being pushed out by the military. It’s called a coup.” That’s from a tweet by Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota about Evo Morales, far-left Bolivian demagogue who had his country’s constitution changed to allow him to continue to rule past the pre-existing term limit. And then, according to international monitors, he shut down the election he should never have rightfully been able to stand in when it looked like the voting wouldn’t break his way.

So, is it, as Omar says, the very definition of a coup? The Organization of American States doesn’t think so. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez concurs with Omar’s designation: “What’s happening right now in Bolivia isn’t democracy, it’s a coup.” The two of them recently endorsed the 2020 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, who went with an only slightly more equivocal version of the same word choice: “I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia, where the military, after weeks of political unrest, intervened to remove President Evo Morales.”