So many layers of The Process and the only defense against political assassinations is voting.
We are so far past the point of voting our way out. We're the most propagandized people on earth. My god. And the US has been assassinating political rivals since it's founding. It's a country built on assassinating political rivals.
That’s the gigantic paradox with the West, simultaneously the most insulated from that sort of turmoil yet constantly afraid that they’re the most exposed to it.