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Levitsky and Ziblatt’s 2018 book, “How Democracies Die,” argued that autocrats don’t always announce themselves with tanks and a coup d’etat.

In fundraising emails, Gallego’s office is telling supporters that he’ll “fight as hard as he can” against an “unconstitutional power grab from the Trump administration”; two thousand miles away from Arizona, he’s hanging out at the same “art-deco-inspired spaces” as those who are aiding that constitutional coup d'état.

Their 884-page report, which was unsealed in November 2024, alleged that "then-President Jair Messias Bolsonaro planned, acted and was directly and effectively aware of the actions of the criminal organisation aiming to launch a coup d'etat and eliminate the democratic rule of law".

Thus, the tone of “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is “in a sense, what Hitchcock would call ‘The Birds’: It’s a comedy that becomes a thriller,” Grimonprez says.

History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.”