Any national issue has many layers of leaders. Some are leaders at the national, some at the state, and some at the local levels. A ll leaders fail at one time or another in their attempts to influence other peoples' behavior. Every person attempts to be a leader at some time and fails. A mixture of success and failure is a normal part of leadership.
Leaders learn from their failures and try again.
Overcoming fear of failure is often one of the highest hurdles in becoming a leader. At times, I have thought my greatest challenge, as a professor teaching about leadership was to prepare future leaders with how to handle failures - not success. Failure should not be regarded as merely failures, but as opportunities for learning. L eadership often involves a personality who wants public recognition of their accomplishments. Leadership is often ego-based behavior.