Despair has a bigger role in history than one might think, and defeat is chosen more often.
The more dreaded or simply more persistent faction in a civil war, though more hated, can win support of a public more afraid of continued violence than of surrender.
And that support can come at the ballot box, as happened more than once in UN-sponsored plebiscites ending colonial or post-colonial wars.
Does this throw light on the Republican strategy of relentless political terrorism?
Maybe.
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