kingmaker

By the 2000s Dobson was a kingmaker in the GOP and was feted by every Republican politician who coveted his endorsement.

Or Cecil B. DeMille, the Hollywood kingmaker whose friendly exterior disguises his determination to preserve his industry’s institutional sexism?

Guralnick’s new book is the story of an immigrant scrapper who became a kingmaker with his unerring instinct for the main chance.

It’s also the fastest-growing, and it’s been a political kingmaker since the 1990s.

On the other hand, the political kingmakers on both sides - who are avid social media users themselves - are hurling jabs at each other too.