Khaberni - Since protests escalated in several American cities rejecting Trump's return to the political forefront, some began quietly wondering if the United States is living through its own spring? Is the fortress of democracy shaking internally just like Eastern systems did at the beginning of the last decade? What is happening in America today does not resemble the Arab Spring in essence, but is more akin to a political storm within a broad democratic garden. The people there have not come out to overthrow the regime, but to express rejection and fear of a political approach that is returning the country to its sharp divisions, and it’s known that the American street cannot revolt against its state, but it converses loudly with it.
The fundamental difference is that the governing institutions in Washington are still functioning, the judiciary is accountable, the media is watching, and the elections are being held on schedule,
It is a spring of a different kind; a spring that stirs ideas not governments, shaking convictions more than changing regimes. Yet, it cannot be ignored that these protests might weaken the Republicans electorally, and place Trump before a mirror he can no longer shatter, a mirror reflecting a divided public between a supporter who sees him as a savior, and an opponent fearing him for chaos. America today is not experiencing a spring in the revolutionary sense, but in my personal opinion, it is going through a variable political autumn, where the leaves of traditional discourse fall, and new questions about the future of power and freedom bloom in a country that used to teach others the lessons of change.
