> there are many examples where this is not true

Genuinely curious for an example of domestic assassination working out well for anyone.

If they survive, they’re forgiven and quasi-deified. If they die, they’re martyred and replaced.

The only cases where this has worked is when it’s a state wholesale wiping out the other side’s political leadership, e.g. Roman proscriptions.

I do not condone political violence. My country has seen enough of it and still suffers from its consequences. (Spain)

That said, the assassination of Carrero Blanco, who was set to be Franco's successor, was instrumental in Spain's transition to democracy.

The difference between the murder of the planned successor of an actual, literal dictator in an actual, literal dictatorship and what happened today is, I hope, evident to everyone.

Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Unless you don't count it as assassination because they held the flimsiest short kangaroo court before it happened, just to fuck with him.

The assassination of Shinzo Abe is pretty widely considered massively successful thanks to rooting out the Unification Church corruption. That required the shooter in question to be incredibly sympathetic since their motivation involved links to said church destroying his family.

This isn't to say this has any bearing on this event though.

If you're earnest about this ask, I'd look into the assassination of Shinzo Abe by Tetsuya Yamagami.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Yamagami

Rabin and Abe seem to be examples where the assassin more or less got what they wanted (derail the peace process and damage the Unification Church respectively)

shinzo abe?

Indira Gandhi? Rajiv Gandhi?