Paper‑Tiger Regime Narrative

A political frame that portrays entrenched elites as outwardly powerful but internally fragile, inviting the public to wait for or precipitate a crisis that will topple them. It packages elite critique as a predictive claim (the regime will fracture) rather than just moral denunciation. — If adopted widely, this narrative lowers the political cost of disruptive tactics and shifts opposition strategy from policy contests to crisis‑anticipatory mobilization.