Attempting assassination is just a last show of selfish, pathetic despair, and only makes things worse for the rest of us. I get it, OK? As I think I've made

Attempting assassination is just a last show of selfish, pathetic despair, and only makes things worse for the rest of us. I get it, OK? As I think I've made it abundantly clear, I don't advocate (and and certainly not the least bit romantic about) the "revolutionary violence" route. It's that this pigeonholing of street-level malefactors as "violent nutjobs", while pretending that those at the top (especially the likes of Erdogan and Putin) who stand patiently at the sidelines† while others enact "nutjob violence" on their behalf -- are to be considered as somehow in a different category than their street-level counterparts -- that I don't buy either. † Quite literally, as we all saw in Erdogan's case a just a few weeks ago in the U.S. capitol.