Escalatory Madness

A core tenant of radicalism is escalatory dominance. The radical seeks to establish the principle that no matter what you do to him in response to his radicalism, he will do far worse to you in his response. The point of this is to force the other side to deal on terms favorable to the radical. This is not in an effort to gain a compromise to which the radical will abide, but to gnaw away at the other side until they are gone.