The ideal candidate

He got to where they wanted him to go. He became party leader and prime minister. For them, for the system, the ideal candidate. The right person to faithfully carry out their orders and a specific policy, their policy, until they realized that he, their own man, has decided to chart his own path, that he has a vision and stands against compromise and defeat. The system likes symbols when they serve its interests and meet its expectations. Otherwise… it destroys and replaces them.