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which is greater than the sum of its parts. Today, we're explaining the pillars of support

that hold up tyrannical regimes and how to undermine the regime by forcing those pillars

to collapse.

Here's a quick overview we got from Tim Hurstead's article on Substack.

The article is called Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't require your opponents to have a

conscience.

Few.

And with the subheadline, if nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished.

Violence is what they're begging for.

History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.

And then deep in the article, it highlights what Trump needs and why he is vulnerable to those

needs.

So Trump needs economic stability, which is vulnerable to strikes and boycotts.

Trump needs institutional cooperation, which is vulnerable to defection and noncompliance.

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