Durable restoration isn’t won with a gun — it’s won with journalism, lawsuits, strikes, organizing, divestment, and the kind of civic mass that makes authoritarians crumble in daylight.

You don’t kill the movement by killing the man; you hand the movement his ghost. Worse, it gives his allies carte blanche to crack down harder, scream about “lawlessness,” and tighten their grip in ways the system can’t easily reverse. Nonviolent resistance doesn’t just look better — it works better, because it leaves the institutions intact and... See more

They die on that hill. Resorting to violence shrinks coalitions and repels the voters who might actually save the country. Broad resistance needs to look principled and lawful, not like a gang fight.