Experts who study protest movements say the scenes unfolding in California broadly follow a script that has played out many times in other countries — sometimes with deadly consequences.
  1. Crackdowns shape optics, and optics shape uprisings.
  2. Heavy-handed responses can lead to more violent protests.
  3. Crackdowns can be steppingstones to wider power grabs.
  • RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
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    5 months ago

    This was Trump’s playbook all along. And an old one that we’ve seen from authoritarian regimes.