The Conclusion turns to the lessons and takes a look at authoritarian trajectories in Rwanda and beyond suggests. It stresses how a focus on moments that we believe make or break authoritarianism draws us away from the making and decaying implicit in more ordinary moments of authoritarianism. It shows how this has been a specific gap of our studies of Rwanda prior to the genocide. Rediscovering some of the sources of instability over the course of the two republics would, indeed, have allowed us to make better sense of some of politics and choices surrounding the genocide.