I just disagree with softening the word by adding “soft” at the beginning. A soft coup is a coup. Date rape is still rape, candy-corn-murder is still murder. No need to add prefixes to try and categorize them, and artificially make some sort of hierarchy.
By naming it any less than a coup, and holding all coups to the same standard, it’s an attempt to soften it, and I am against that.
I definitely agree we have different names for different scenarios!
When a rich person is murdered, they’re assassinated
When a religious figure does a magic trick, it’s a miracle etc