Quote #80

His most substantial contribution to American politics is that he showed that in the right conditions and with the right strategy, you can drive an independent populist truck straight through the Potemkin village that is the party system... His legacy is that he showed that a centrist candidate with a healthy disrespect for big everything - corporations, government, media - can rally the unhappy, inchoate middle and ride that into office.

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