The resolution of the Faizabad interchange sit-in has left me, along with many others, feeling bleak and full of sadness. It feels a defeat, and not one that will spur one forward. Such a sense of despair across Pakistan, at least amongst the ‘liberal fascists’/ ‘fake liberals’ as they like to call us.
It did make me think how once again Pakistan is ahead of the curve in all the worst things. Imran Khan is only another self-believing rightwing Trumpist military fetishist, there to ‘clean up’ corruption, his political partners are complicit in both corruption and appeasement, and many of his followers could wear MAGA hat and be distinguishable only by skin colour and head covering.
We’ve lost our chances. There is no way back up.