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Patrick Chovanec:<\/strong> Top Party leaders, regardless of political philosophy, had come to dislike Bo [Xilai], not as a person per se \u2014 by all accounts, Bo is an extraordinarily charming man \u2014 but as a political persona, at least in his Chongqing incarnation, for three reasons:<\/p>\n

First, they were offended by his courting of the media and his vigorous self-promotion, which showed a lack of appropriate deference and humility to established power channels and ways of resolving competition. Second, they felt threatened, because few of them were equipped to compete on this basis, if that\u2019s what it took. Third, they were alarmed by Bo\u2019s tactic of \u201cmobilizing the masses\u201d in ways that explicitly invoked the Cultural Revolution, which called up deep-seated fears that populist fervor could be used as a weapon against rival leaders within the Party \u2014 as indeed happened during the Cultural Revolution, to horrific results.<\/p>\n

via Bo\u2019s Ides of March \u00ab Patrick Chovanec<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Chovanec: Top Party leaders, regardless of political philosophy, had come to dislike Bo [Xilai], not as a person per se \u2014 by all accounts, Bo is an extraordinarily charming man \u2014 but as a political persona, at least in his Chongqing incarnation, for three reasons: First, they were offended by his courting of the … <\/p>\n

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