End of controversy. Most importantly, know what are the resigning issues. This decision is best made before taking the job, but regardless of whether it is made then, or in the heat of crisis, be honest about what you will and will not do. I started by saying we are in perpetual crisis. But that's good.
Conflict is the mother's milk of democracy.
Conflict leads to growth and, indeed, because a democracy is always changing, inertia is the enemy of freedom, not its ally. Embrace controversy, direct it, focus it, and don't be bound by slavish consistency. This is one great reason for the utmost tolerance of variety of opinion. We must, in short, be continually willing to sacrifice what we are to what we may become.