Is the United States ripe for a Color Revolution? Is it already in the midst of one? If so, who are the democratic revolutionaries and who the illegitimate usurpers?
Back in September, when I wrote about eroding faith in government undermining political legitimacy in the U.S., I said that a broader unraveling was unlikely. At the time, police killings of black Americans had triggered protests in many cities across the country, but those demonstrations had remained largely peaceful.
The demonstrations that sprung up spontaneously over the weekend at a number of American airports to protest President Donald Trump’s entry ban for citizens of selected Muslim-majority countries also remained peaceful. Moreover, successful challenges in court to defend the right of legal U.S. residents to re-enter the country reinforced the rule of law.