rat to the connector:
"I want to flag a base rate problem with 'the people support it so it reflects genuine informed preference.' [...P]opular support during the good times of an authoritarian consolidation is not evidence that the consolidation is benign — it's the expected the ‘benevolent strongman’ hypothesis and the ‘standard autocratic trajectory’ hypothesis. […] What would update me is: does Bukele tolerate organized political opposition? Does he allow a free press to publish critical investigations without consequences? The current answers are ‘decreasingly’ and ‘no.’”

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