What if authoritarian regimes do not fall the way we imagine? In The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, Luis Fleischman warns against a recurring illusion: believing that insiders produced by authoritarian systems can suddenly become agents of democratic rupture. From Iran, with the alleged Ahmadinejad scenario, to Venezuela and the failed “Operación Libertad” of 2019, the lesson is clear: personal resentment is not ideological rupture.
Authoritarian Regimes: The Illusion of the Insider
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