Mexican political thinkers were in a state of exasperation following the international humiliation and dismemberment of the nation in by the United States in the Mexican-American War. The disaster of the war helped contribute to a resurgence in monarchism, to the point that in a letter between liberal thinkers Jose Luis Mora and , Otero opined that the monarchist party may have been triumphant in Mexico if the monarchy had not just been overthrown in France in the Revolution of 1848, thus influencing the political fashion in favor of republicanism.