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

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Across all of these cases, the through-line is legitimacy. People no longer believe their governments will protect them, share power, or even keep them alive. When the ordinary avenues of change are blocked, some turn to extraordinary ones from torching parliament buildings to assassinating political figures.