Profiles: The Ringleader : The New Yorker.

Grover Norquist plays a key role in keeping the coalition together, acting, by turns, as ringleader, visionary, and enforcer. “It’s very unusual to have a leader in the conservative movement who can unite everybody,” Charles Black, a veteran Republican strategist, says. “Grover’s got a way of convincing people that they are important and that what they are doing is significant.”