"bias in favor of peaceful deliberation... polity offers mechanisms for eventually changing unjust laws" - excerpt from "An Election Is Not a Suicide Mission"

Damon Winter/The New York Times        

An Election Is Not a Suicide Mission

Ross Douthat / New York Times | 2 Nov. 2016

What this teaching suggests is that we should have a strong bias in favor of peaceful deliberation so long as deliberation remains possible. And that bias can be reasonably applied to the internal peace of a republic as much as to the peace between nations. So long as your polity offers mechanisms for eventually changing unjust laws, it’s better to accept the system’s basic legitimacy and work within it for change than to take steps, violent or otherwise, that risk blowing the entire apparatus up.

Perhaps you have already guessed that this argument has some application to the position of principled conservatives in the year of Donald Trump.