There's this phrase, color revolution that's been bouncing around right-wing media circles for the past few months.

The idea of a color revolution in its original form was that the people, you know, often students, would come out, they would wear the same color, and they would push back against fraudulent elections

in authoritarian regimes. That's Renee Doresta. You can think of her as a detective who tracks

down misinformation online. She's based at Stanford, and she's part of a group of researchers who

were following attempts to delegitimize the 2020 elections. They're called the

election integrity partnership. And then the term came to be kind of co-opted by Russia and China,

which reframed it to mean, to claim that those student-driven actions, that those popular

movements were in fact secretly led by the U.S. deep state by the CIA.

You can guess where this whole color revolution thing is going, right?

And that was the sense in which these conservative activists in the U.S. were using it

to say that the U.S. deep state was trying to conspire with the Democrats to keep the president from being

rightfully elected.

She says warnings of a deep state color revolution against President Trump went from Russian

state media and a few blogs to former Trump speechwriter Darren Beatty.

Here he is on a podcast with Steve Bannon.

The force opposed to him is deeply embedded within our national security state.

They're running the same playbook on him that they do on all these other countries.

And so you'll see it moving both through the official channels, if you will, through the broadcast media channels.

And you'll also see it moving through the social media channels.

You know, in this particular case, that claim wound up on Tucker Carlson.

For our viewers who are not familiar with the color revolutions in Eastern Europe.

Darren Beatty was his guest.

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