The Brew: Is the U.S. Being Subject to a ‘Color Revolution’?

I don’t know the answer to the question posed above. I don’t pretend to have secret sources or Deep State contacts who’ve tipped me off about anything. I don’t get messages from Charlie Kirk’s ghost in my dreams, as Candace Owens claims to. I haven’t wrestled demons in my sleep, then promptly changed my worldview and become a conspiracy theorist, like The Revisionist Formerly Known As Tucker Carlson (TRFKATC, pronounced turFAKat).

But I have studied history, deeply, for decades. I’ve followed American politics more closely than is healthy. And I can recognize patterns. There’s a technique that our intelligence community has used since the 1950s (then later refined and developed) for bringing down regimes it deemed as hostile. It started with countries in Central America, which our CIA thought were in danger of falling to the Communists. It spread in the 1960s to South Vietnam — where the anti-Communist regime wasn’t to the taste of U.S. spymasters. We used the technique in 1970s Chile, again as part of the Cold War.

The Recipe for Regime Change

I’m no expert, but the steps seem to me to go as follows:

1. Discredit the regime’s legitimacy with claims that it’s corrupt, and violating the basic rights of citizens, in service of foreign governments or ideologies.
2. Suborn key officials inside the regime to sabotage its inner workings.
3. Coopt crucial officers in its military, so that they refuse legitimate orders of the civilian government.
4. Stoke chaos and civil unrest, and disrespect for law enforcement, in the name of a democratic “Resistance.”
5. Terrorize and if possible imprison or assassinate key supporters of the regime.
6. When citizens begin to panic at the collapse of public order, act swiftly to replace the government with your carefully vetted allies — preferably somone with a veneer of legitimacy.

Does any of this sound familiar, folks?

The Enemy Now Is … Us

Our three-letter agencies (CIA, NSA, FBI) didn’t close up shop when the Soviet Union collapsed. As intelligence community whistleblower Mike Benz has revealed, our Deep State and its colleagues in other NATO countries continued to see their job as embarking on regime change and promoting “liberal democracy” as they defined it. But in the absence of the Soviet threat, these agencies turned their attention to “saving democracy” at home — by suppressing conservative, religious, nationalist, and other movements that diverged from the center-left consensus that by then dominated their governments.

Brookings houses Norm Eisen, who chairs its color revolution planning arm. Brookings published the 300 pg book “Overcoming Trumpery,” with Norm Eisen as editor. Brookings publishes Norm Eisen’s annually updated domestic color revolution planning guide, The Democracy Playbook pic.twitter.com/qGHhJQ4xhX

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 5, 2025

And that’s exactly what happened in 2017, when Vice-President-elect Mike Pence colluded with the FBI to remove Director of National Intelligence Gen. Mike Flynn — removing the one man who could have detected and exposed the plan that President Barack Obama had already put in place: with help from British intellgience to discredit the newly elected Donald Trump as a Russian asset, and if possible force his removal from office — to be replaced by the oh-so-cooperative Mike Pence. (Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has called this effort an “attempted coup.”)

Remember what happened later: the COVID panic weaponized to make ballot fraud much easier in swing states, 51 bipartisan Deep State veterans falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, and the CIA pressuring Facebook to censor the laptop story on the eve of an election.

The Second Coup Attempt

Two fake impeachments, one stolen election, and the January 6 witch hunt later, after dozens of members of Congress and every leading conservative organization in the country had been illegally surveilled at the orders of prosecutor Jack Smith in his Artic Frost probe, what did we see? Two assassination attempts on candidate Trump, both by alleged lone wolves who never should have gotten anywhere near him. Whoopsies! How ever did the Secret Service become so suddenly incompetent? Weird that in a country tainted by “systemic racism” nothing similar happened (thankfully) to Barack Obama. Huh.

Divine Providence intervened and Trump survived. The next layer of “protection” for “democracy” lay in the voting machines that had somehow given sleepy Joe Biden 8 million more votes than Barack Obama in the midst of a pandemic lockdown. They would do the same for Kamala Harris in 2024, it was planned. I’ve pointed you to Emerald Robinson and Lara Logan’s reports on the patriot hackers who managed to sabotage the computer servers in foreign countries whose job it was to pump out votes as needed in swing states.

The Revolution of 2025?

But the Color Revolution isn’t done, not by a long shot. We have governors of huge states declaring federal immigration laws non-binding and using their law enforcement to impede ICE deportations. Huge “spontaneous” riots erupt in key locations, with professionally printed signs. Charlie Kirk was murdered, and his movement quickly divided by extremists claiming his mantle — partly discrediting the most effective patriotic Christian organization in the country. Judges issue coordinated rulings stripping the executive branch of powers it routinely exercised in previous administrations. Most recently, we had six members of Congress with military ties appealing to service members to disobey presidential orders.

Does all this pass the smell test to you? It doesn’t to a lot of people. For instance, Glenn Beck:

‘The moment we have feared has arrived.’ .@glennbeck gives a brief explanation of the *color revolution* – it’s nothing new, and no one is calling out these Islamic terrorist communist sympathizers. pic.twitter.com/KBWqUPhGlf

— Erica (@EricaRN4USA) June 13, 2025

Nor to Gen. Mike Flynn, who was almost railroaded into prison for resisting the 2017 coup:

Breaking! General Flynn Calls On President Trump To Immediately Address The Nation Concerning The Color Revolution Being Fomented By The Seditious 6 And The CIA As He Lays Out The String Of Illegal Investigations And Law-fare That The Leftist Have Engaged In Since DJT’s Historic… pic.twitter.com/HYeXQwCNim

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 26, 2025

Here’s how Flynn laid out the stages of the Color Revolution he believes is currently underway, and about to reach its critical point of implementation — perhaps before Trump manage to topple the Venezuelan dictatorship, and gain access to proof of the 2020 election fraud conducted using Venezuelan software:

Face the Facts America—We are in the midst of a very serious and very dangerous COLOR REVOLUTION.

Whenever you hear anyone say, “we must save our democracy”, that is their signal to others that they want to destroy our republic. And trust that they are intent on doing so.…

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) November 15, 2025

The spiritual warfare is becoming pretty dang tangible right before our eyes. Pray hard, people.

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John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.