Maduro isn’t a dictator.

What a strange framing for the article. It mostly focuses on fascism, but manages to speak down to the people who saw this very obvious outcome. Maybe there’s a level of irony in not seeing, but if you’re using this “lib” framing, which I don’t necessarily agree with but conceding that point, maybe tie that back into how fascists ridicule their detractors. The resistance movement was substantial and full of lots of different people, but the writer points to “the shrillest” of them as though they were uppity women screaming into the void. They might not have accomplished a lot, but framing them as hysterical undercuts your point, even if you are admitting they were right. They were not hysterically correct, they were correct. I’m assuming there’s some irony in there, but even so, that is not enough work done in my opinion to be using that framing. If anyone recalls, the pussy hats were essentially in solidarity with women he open referred to molesting. Let’s see where we are now, oh he’s all over the Epstein files and refusing to release them. Fascists want you to think solidarity is cringe and that protesters are shrill. In reality solidarity is the only place we can truly derive strength from and protesting is one way we exercise our power and freedoms. I’d love if they had taken even a few sentences to mention those things instead of feeding into the fascist narrative about libs.