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[Winter]

It’s part of true leadership. 

You make the hard decision that you believe is best for the organization, knowing that it will make you look bad, and that you can’t publicly defend it.

If your goal as a leader is to constantly have public approval, you will make bad decisions.

Completely agree. 

I think though, he thought there was such a thing as "a time when it dies down". I'm really not sure there is. I think Nico will suffer years of vitriol if he lasts that long. At some point, he will need to face the media again and all this gets replayed.