Anyone who says “reach across the isle” in the primary is an automatic no. These people are not interested in governing. They are openly hostile.

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

^ Maybe we should prevent this sort of thing, no?