Rick Perlstein quote

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein
Born: 1969

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