Prescience

Max Weber, an influential German thinker, in his Economics and Society:

As a rule, the party organisation easily succeeds in this castration of charisma. This will also remain true of the United States, even in face of the plebiscitary presidential primaries, since in the long run the continuity of professional operations is tactically superior to emotional worship. Only extraordinary conditions can bring about the triump of charisma over the organisation.