Under Trump, Americans could turn from civil protest to civic revolution

Over the last 50 years, urban democratic protest has become a powerful revolutionary force, in Europe and beyond. Some of these protests, like those against Soviet rule in Eastern Europe in 1989, led to lasting change. Some, like those of the ‘Arab Spring’, resulted in bitter and violent defeat. And the fate of some, like the current uprisings in Georgia and Turkey, are still to be determined. The US, with its long history of democratic government, has little experience with this sort of revolutionary protest. But, Ben Rogers asks, with an authoritarian president now in charge, and constitutional ‘checks and balances’ looking vulnerable, could that be about to change?