For those of you who think this was an easy overnight takeover, you haven’t been following history very long. While the underpinnings were probably long before Reagan, the end of the 70s laid the necessary groundwork. When Reagan was elected, he and the evangelicals unified the Republican platform.

Sounds like a reason the military can become involved as they are supposed to act in the best interest of the country as laid down by the Constitution which they have sworn an oath to uphold.