Rodney certainly was bright but his skill in organizing protests to the administration was not very good.
Not sure what you are talking about here. I was there for every protest. There were significant numbers for all protests. Burnham did not use to give permission for protests marches and frankly that was one of the reasons why the protests were successful. Towards the end Burnham did start giving permission and things started to fizzle.
As I said, I was there as a viewer. I saw the adoration, the belief that ends can be achieved in standing up to a brutal regime. However, that was not maximized and he got himself blown up so obviously his gains tho significant in showing the regime could be stared down was otherwise marginal. Burnham went on to lord over us for another 10 years.