Genuinely curious for an example of domestic assassination working out well for anyone.
If they survive, they’re forgiven and quasi-deified. If they die, they’re martyred and replaced.
The only cases where this has worked is when it’s a state wholesale wiping out the other side’s political leadership, e.g. Roman proscriptions.
That said, the assassination of Carrero Blanco, who was set to be Franco's successor, was instrumental in Spain's transition to democracy.
The difference between the murder of the planned successor of an actual, literal dictator in an actual, literal dictatorship and what happened today is, I hope, evident to everyone.
This is a good example. Thank you.
Unless you don't count it as assassination because they held the flimsiest short kangaroo court before it happened, just to fuck with him.
I don't. Kangaroo courts to try the tyrant are a precedented way of transitioning to democracy.
This isn't to say this has any bearing on this event though.
Indira Gandhi? Rajiv Gandhi?