Political Myth-Making and State Legitimacy
First off, it is quite evident that the United States, which for years has been losing internal state legitimacy, is in crisis. (It’s already lost external state legitimacy, the Trump brand reportedly now distrusted by three-fourths of the world.) This means that a majority of American citizens no longer believe that the political and economic elites are working in the public interest. Once this happens, to cite Humpty Dumpty: “all the king’s horses [the police and military apparatuses] and all the king’s men [loyal state officials and publicity agents] couldn’t put Humpty [state legitimacy] together again.”
See Also:
Election 2008 Chapter: Legitimate Grievances
Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
#UNRIG (Summer of Peace): Beyond Trump & Sanders
