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Maddow: Once You Have 3.5% of the Population Protest Against a Dictator, That Is Essentially an Unstoppable Force

‘In political science terms, there’s what’s called the 3.5% rule’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

MADDOW: "I mean, in political science terms, there’s what’s called the 3.5% rule, which is that if you look at authoritarian regimes of various kinds all over the world, over the last like century, once you have 3.5% of a population protesting nonviolently against a dictator or an authoritarian, that is essentially an unstoppable force that can — that they can’t oppose. And that precludes them from consolidating dictatorial power."

KIMMEL: "3.5%.”

MADDOW: "3.5%. It's not that much larger than what we’re already seeing in the streets against Trump."

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