Everyone imagined their political opponents to be infallible leviathans who ruled with ruthless efficiency and relentless execution. But few plots survived contact with reality. The tangled network of human relationships that was the political arena was so complex that something inevitably went awry. It was through those cracks that new players clawed hand over bloody hand into the game. And once you were in, the only way to stay in was to throw yourself into the abyss of uncertainty with wild abandon over and over and over again. You had to risk everything every single day. Otherwise, someone
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