Riots as electoral accelerant

When large, visible public disorder coincides with low incumbent approval, it can sharply accelerate a challenger’s path to power by reframing the election as a referendum on order and authority. The sequence is: unrest → public insecurity → consolidation of support for a hard‑line candidate promising control. — If true, this changes how observers should interpret short‑term violence: not merely as episodic law‑and‑order stories but as proximate drivers of regime change and foreign‑policy shifts.