The Candlelight Revolution: What Trump's America Can Learn from South Korea.

Korea's candlelight revolution is the most recent proof that sustained, nonviolent mass mobilization works. The question is whether America will sustain it.

On the evening of October 29, 2016, something happened in Seoul that had not happened anywhere in the world for a long time.

People brought candles.

Not hundreds of people. Not thousands. Thirty thousand Koreans gathered in central Seoul on that first Saturday, holding small lights in the dark, calling for their president to resign. The following Saturday…