The Assassination of Danton and Demoulas

I for one, am willing to believe he was genuinely conflicted about going after danton and demoulas. I think it's well established that he pulled back from any public alliance he might have been forging with the indulgence following deglantino's expose. But danton and Demoula were not aristocratic swine or out of control rabble rousers; they were friends. In a couple of key moments, they had stood side by side when the winds were blowing really hard in the other direction. Both thought dechristianization to be the height of folly, and joined forces trying to com i this is all just a few months ago.