[expat2]

Not true, just a cop-out.
It worked against non-Christian communists in Poland, and again in Soviet Russia. It worked in Egypt against the Muslim fascists led by Morsi. The people of Cairo had 10 times more testicles than the people of the USA.

[chajin]

I might agree with you, except that the Poles were still Catholic at their core (that’s why JPII was able to have so much effect in the 1980s); the USSR collapsed because of the weight of trying to keep up with the US militarily; and in Cairo, the result was not that the government reformed, but that the military staged a coup. A similar, perpetuated mass demonstration in DC and other major cities could also lead to a military coup in the US, but that isn’t something we should hope for, because that would turn us into Chile under Pinochet.