Mossadeq’s case afaik was a coup backed by the CIA and British MI. As for Bernie, imo he did get screwed but that was more DNC internal party favouritism. Even so while I concede your point that the state and establishment everywhere exerts biases and continuity on their respective systems.
Pakistan however is a more unique case however, we’ve had more years of dictatorship and faux-democracy/hybrid dictatorship than actual years of true civilian rule, even the latter whenever it has been allowed space has been heavily undermined. As for the comparison with establishment bias in the US, I would argue that the comparison is unfitting.
The US has had 45 presidents, one single constitution (the civil war notwithstanding), and that document has been kept as the sacred and ultimate authority in the land. Meanwhile our constitution has been trampled and bypassed by every dictator since 1973.
And in our entire history, we have never had a single PM complete their term. I hope that Imran Khan will be the first to do so, but I have my doubts and those doubts have historic precedence.
This is why I think that our case is quite unique and warrants a lot of criticism of the active and on going attempts to undermine democracy and exert a bias on the system. I am putting these remarks as lightly as I can, what I know to have happened even in recent years would astound people if said openly, I have no evidence to back up such ludicrously shocking remarks, so I’ll leave it at that.
Apologies for the essay, but you get what I’m saying, I have a tendency to ramble.