I don’t think this is true at all. History is full of terrorist causes which materialized with full public support. Plenty of people supported the ANC, while t

I don’t think this is true at all. History is full of terrorist causes which materialized with full public support. Plenty of people supported the ANC, while the ANC was considered a terrorist organization, still Apartheid South Africa ended and the ANC is now in government. Plenty of people supported the IRA, but still Northern Irish Catholics got civil rights and a political avenue for Irish reunification. Shin Féin even holds a plurality in Northern Ireland’s assembly and is increasing in popularity in the Republic of Ireland. Plenty of people supported violent resistance of the Civil Rights movement (including Martin Luther King). Though the Civil Rights movement never ventured into terrorism, other black liberation groups certainly did, this did not undermine the cause of black liberation. And if we go even further back in history, support for John Brown—a terrorist and a full blown insurrectionist—did not undermine any sympathy for the abolitionist movement.