Liberal media endorsed violent suppression of parliament to protect austerity reforms

Evidence

The result was hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries. He dissolved the parliament, suspended the constitution, disbanded the constitutional court, shut down newspapers, and jailed his political opponents. The Economist had no reservations in endorsing Yeltsin’s strongman tactics as necessary to ensure the capital order: “Mr. Yeltsin had to choose between smashing his rival with force or seeing himself, his government, and any prospect of reform destroyed. The threat, in the end, was extreme—and so, necessarily, was the response.” — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 358

Categorization

• XREF: Strongest case of liberal elites explicitly endorsing authoritarian force against democracy”— parallels the Economist’s/liberal world’s stance in Chile and Italy. Directly serves the reader’s stress-test of the democracy-is-anti-capitalism claim. — connects to: Liberal elites endorsed Yeltsin’s tank assault on parliament to protect economic reform — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 358