Not everything needs to make sense in life, but when a situation seems inexplicable, it may well be that we simply don’t want to admit the truth. The answer to what bedevils us is usually staring us in the face.
A Biologist or Chemist would try different tests and computations before proving out their theory, and that would be that; for the Political Scientist, there comes a point where so much evidence has piled up that only unconscious bias — or the dangerously naive hope that good faith motives are omnipresent — will prevent you from admitting the truth.
