Not sure how “legit” of a question this is, but I’ve been listening to Mike Duncan’s podcast “Revolutions” for a little while, and one of my big takeaways are how fragile post-revolutionary regimes can be. It seems to me that most of the revolutions he covers see a large amount of (often violent) leadership turnover both during and after periods of revolution (eg. French, Mexican, and Russian revolutions). Is there an explanation for why the United States didn’t see similar kinds of instability after seceding from Great Britain? I recognize that my premise may also be false, and I just have a bad understanding of post-revolutionary history so feel free to just tell me to read more.
I answered a related question here a while back about the Articles of Confederation period, and how much instability there was.
But as far as comparing revolutions, there has long been an acceptance that the War for Independence was a conservative revolution. There had been essentially an on-site government in the colonies ( legislatures) and an off-site government ( the king and parliament) and a small connection between them, the royal governors. The war was mostly the on-site government splitting from the off-site one, and the off-site one resisting. That splitting, and the resistance, was in many ways dithering and somewhat unorganized, but the on-site government did hold together and that on-site government and the people in it, with a few alterations, pretty much continued afterwards- many would say until the election of 1800.
The governments of France, Mexico and Russia were racked by revolts and dissent from within, as well as challenges of war and economics that they showed themselves incapable of managing. It has been said that they were resistant to change, which is not correct: in all cases reforms, sometimes major reforms, were proposed and even implemented. But in all these cases , the governments could not handle their crises and there was a top-to-bottom change in power and authority that didn't happen with the US, even during the War.