Nobody takes national office without a significant coalition of supporters and officers underneath.
The issue is in how those lieutenants relate to one another and how many of them are proxies for another string of organizers and leaders. You don't want a Stalin/Trotsky situation if Lenin bites it.
I believe that tends to be baked into any successful national campaign. Like, he wouldn't be here if he wasn't surrounded by like-minded trustworthy people.
What would be ideal is to run as a party, maybe a council that picks a candidate to be their figurehead at the end of the campaign.
A group of people is a lot harder to liquidate than an individual.
Nobody takes national office without a significant coalition of supporters and officers underneath.
The issue is in how those lieutenants relate to one another and how many of them are proxies for another string of organizers and leaders. You don't want a Stalin/Trotsky situation if Lenin bites it.
Either way it helps to have a lot of people who are on the same page, trust each other, and also don't put personal ambitions above the group.
I believe that tends to be baked into any successful national campaign. Like, he wouldn't be here if he wasn't surrounded by like-minded trustworthy people.