People conform to Underwood’s will. They might struggle with the yoke at the beginning, but ultimately they move as pawns on his chessboard. He has everyone’s measure, and their weaknesses are his strength. This of course is another great myth of politics – the uncluttered power of the strong-man, the kingmaker who trades only in pin-point treachery and possesses the perfect strategy and the means of executing it without mess or digressions. It is, of course, a fantasy – as all of the boilovers of political history can readily attest.

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