Dr. Jack Goldstone

He has the wealthy.

He has farmers.

So there are a lot of different groups that have kind of come together under the MAGA banner.

And internet has not made it easier to build a kind of similarly broad counter coalition.

In fact, I think it's made it more challenging.

It's a good question.

I know, right?

Historically, the trend has been for peaceful revolutions to become more prevalent in recent years.

Now, most revolutions in the past were violent because in monarchies, we had basically monarchies and empires and few military dictatorships, the military was personally loyal to the elites.

The opposition really had to put a lot of people together.

They had to seize weapons.

They had to build their own counter armies.

The English Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, even though they started with protests in the street, they ended up having to create revolutionary armies to defend themselves against the holdovers from the old elites who were trying to take the country back and overturn the revolution.

Now, in modern times, populations tend to be older.

That is, in the old days, you had lots of young people, and they were cannon fodder.

They were ideologically easy to get excited.

Nowadays, in countries like Europe, US, even in Russia and China, the average age is about 35.

These are people who have jobs and a mortgage.

It's not like the average age is 25, as it was in the time of the French Revolution, where it's mostly kids.

So older people are willing to protest.