It's his take on what motivates the gypsies who, every election season, uproot their lives, disconnect from loved ones and give up regular food and sleep for cold pizza, flat Cokes and all-nighters.
Sounds like a cult to me
This kind of stuff (will everyone on a parade route have to salute or be beaten?) resembles Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc satellites, and tinhorn African dictatorships (like Mugabe's Zimbabwe).
For the followers of the Clintons, it is a substitute for religious beliefs. It is their religion.