An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

Rick Perlstein
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The Establishment is nothing more than those people who run the Show. It is those people who make the rules and decide what is happening and what will happen. You can be as anti as you like, but if you do not work to close the deal and sew up the Establishment, you will never win.

Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall Of Nixon And The Rise Of Reagan

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