Agreed that in her outlying case, most of what she’s done is tap into a political movement in ways we’d prefer not to. But is that true for high-performers generally? I’d hypothesise that elite academic credentials + policy-relevant research + willingness to be political, is enough to get people into elite political positions, maybe a tier lower than hers, a decade later, but it’d be worth knowing how all the variables in these different cases contribute.
Agreed that in her outlying case, most of what she’s done is tap into a political movement in ways we’d prefer not to. But is that true for high-performers generally? I’d hypothesise that elite academic credentials + policy-relevant research + willingness to be political, is enough to get people into elite political positions, maybe a tier lower than hers, a decade later, but it’d be worth knowing how all the variables in these different cases contribute.
Yep—agree with all that, especially that it would be cool for somebody to look into the general question.