You can't overestimate the importance of the leadership principle. Mainstream socialists couldn't have pulled off the New Deal without the person of FDR. Without LBJ, soocially corrosive elites couldn't have pulled off the Great Society, subjecting to matriarchialization the African-American society that had a higher rate than whites of intact, biological families with the father in the home during the Depression--close your small biz, go down to City Hall & get free money but, by the way, Dad will have to go Papa Was a Rolling Stone. And you'd better watch what you say about female Hitler AOC, because know-nothing...