Dr. Jack Goldstone

But I don't think that will happen.

In Egypt,

There was a decades-old tradition of the military being involved in power and putting military officers in charge.

America is the opposite.

We have 250 years of the military being outside of politics and generals only become president after they've retired, joined political parties, and been elected.

I don't think we're going to see a counterrevolution like that.

If we see a counterrevolution, basically two options.

If the ballot box remains available, then we could see some Democratic-led effort to mobilize the people for new elections in 2026 and 2028 in which they use the power of the presidency that Trump has pioneered to start pushing things through that are different.

They may make Puerto Rico and DC states.

They may put term limits on service in the Supreme Court.

So you'd have kind of, you know, really dramatic radical action in the opposite direction, as it were, if the Democrats can take power by elections.

Now, if it's the case, and these are two big ifs, because you can't predict the future, so I'm just projecting since you asked.

You know, let's say Trump continues with his revolution.

He basically puts all of his people in every branch of government.

He, you know, pressures the universities to fold.

We get to the feeling where we're not living under the rule of law.

We're living under the rule of the president.

I tell my students, for most of my lifetime, presidents always complained about how weak they were because they had the courts.

They had

Congress.