realpolitik

Juvenile power fantasies are now meeting realpolitik and power.

“India is in many ways the epitome of the ‘realpolitik state’ in today’s world, meaning it has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

In an email, Norman Ornstein, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a prominent pro-democracy voice, offered a dose of realpolitik.

One can almost imagine a more clear-headed and ruthless version of Trump who sticks to that kind of hardcore realpolitik and gets away with it.

It's partly the sort of realpolitik of the chalk network that I live on, which is just this spectacularly rare ecosystem.