Patrick’s Reviews > Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America > Status Update

Nearing the end "The New Politics reformers had fantasised a pure politics, a politics of unyielding principle - an antipolitics. But in the real world, politics without equivocation or compromise is impossible. Thus an unintended consequence for the would-be antipolitician. Announcing one's inflexibility sabotages him in advance. Every time he makes a political decision, he looks like a sellout."