Realpolitik 101: The Real Takeaway (Lesson) for National's Tamaki M.P.

...seems to be:

*Do not put your head up above the parapet

*Keep mum about what you really believe

*In order 'not to frighten the horses'

*At all costs - whatever else you do - don't stuff up our (presently excellent) chances at the upcoming general election...

...a cool, calculating approach to electoral politics is now all that is required, thank you very much...

Power - political power - at all costs is all that is demanded these days...

But didn't another once so memorably declare that

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

But what that Machievelli, or was it Donald J Trump?

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