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I remember making an incredibly long and deranged post about my interpretation of The Lion King. But the gist is that The Lion King is a royal chronicle that heavily pushed a Simbaist line when Scar should've been king under the then Pride Rock traditional line of succession through agnatic seniority instead of male-exclusive primogeniture, which was forcefully imposed by the Simbaists when Scar was overthrown. Some points:
Mufasa wasn't actually killed by Scar. He was killed in a peasant revolt led by wildebeest peasants. Even the Simbaist distortion of truth called The Lion King admits this since Mufasa ultimately dies at the ~~hands~~ hooves of the wildebeest, not Scar.
Scar's supporters being exclusively hyenas is just a way for Simbaists to tar Scar for only having support from a marginalized community who were forced to live in squalid ghettos under the Mufasa regime. In fact, Scar had support among multiple sections of Pride Rock society such as the above mentioned wildebeest who killed Mufasa. Scar emancipated the hyenas, and the vindictive backlash of hyenas such as numerous Simbaists-led pogroms is reflected in The Lion King.
Pride Rock suffering from a drought when Scar was king is just transparent "Pride Rock had a drought because Scar didn't receive the Mandate of Heaven to rule Pride Rock." By all accounts, rain levels were slightly higher under Scar than the previous Mufasa and subsequent Simba regimes. But more importantly, Scar's reforms such as cutbacks on lavish leonic displays of gluttony allowed the beast peasantry much needed respite.
Scar wasn't a tyrant. If anything, most animals in Pride Rock saw Scar as a moderate and lesser evil who was willing to bring about much-needed reforms for the sake of kingdom stability. Meanwhile, the Mufasa and Simba regimes both uphold leonic supremacy expressed through a harsh caste system where lower castes needed to know their place in the so-called "Circle of Life."
All this is to say The Lion King is Simbaist propaganda and Simba is a tyrant who must be overthrown.
Down with the tyrant Simba!
Down with the Simba regime!
Down with Simbaism!
Down with leonic supremacy!
Down with the Circle of Life!
Long live Pride Rock!
All power to the hooves and horns!