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11. YES! C.f. Mike Gecan as recorded by Studs Terkel:

Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:35 PM

Dec 26

"There’s always a tendency to look for the most charismatic person, because that, in a way, solves your leadership problem – but only in the short term…. You can’t counter institutional power with good intentions, or charisma alone…. You have to build your own institutional power."

(Emphasis supplied.) From Terkel's book, Hope Dies Last (The New Press, 2003).

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