realpolitik

A moment of rejection and a resulting shift to realpolitik that the famed Victorian realist Hardy would have been proud of.

The received wisdom is that the bill would have no chance of passage in the House, which has a narrow GOP majority, but the same realpolitik calculation by Republican office-holders might change that.

Some of that commerce is a matter of economically minded realpolitik.

He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.

Here is some plain talk and uncomfortable realpolitik for establishment Democrats: If Harris had run a perfect campaign she would have won.