There is a revolution occurring in the US. It is not a revolution in the political science sense of a violent and/or anti-constitutional seizure of power by forces in society (revolution from below) or from within the state apparatus (revolution from above) intended to create a new social order and political regime (from authoritarian to republican or visa versa. Rather, it is a revolution in the sense of a complete reversal of the government’s political orientation and policies. The Trump ‘revolution’ would be an actual one in political science terms, if the Biden administration and Democrat Party-state had consolidated fully their attempt to create an authoritarian single-party dominant regime. But the victory of Donald S. Trump in the recent presidential elections, as well as the victories for the Republican Party in taking majorities in both houses, demonstrates the incompleteness of their hoped for revolution from above, spelling its demise or postponement. The Trump ‘revolution’ is therefore better understood as a comprehensive political, economic, and social reform program on the order of last USSR president and general secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s perestroika (1985-1991).* Although there are obvious differences between the two contexts and processes, there are striking similarities which I offer below.
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Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.