Doesn't Work That Way, Sir
Politics on a national scale is a business of building group identities, of getting as many people as possible to range themselves under your banner. Doing this successfully requires a unity of purpose and identity. People want to join in something solid, not something fractious. The former inspires confidence, the latter does not. Spend all your time attacking your fellows, no one wants to join. Why should they, what's there to join?
It is not about influencing. It's about inspiring. About getting people to say these are my guys, man....
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