Second, that her words are a counsel of despair and that this may harm the wider population's willingness to hear her message.

But this, meant to be a rallying war cry, could so easily become a counsel of despair.

This need not be a counsel of despair.

In fact, the 'progressive' agenda often amounts to a counsel of despair.

The counsel of despair was habitat re-creation: the idea that it's perfectly all right to destroy a place, because you can always make another nice place somewhere else.