The number 1's have little respect for the number 2's. Number 2's have animosity toward the number 1's. However, life and this country is full of the number 2's.My experience in life so far is that 2 types of people get kept around and promoted.
1) People who work hard, treat people fairly, and are good at what they do.
2) Yes-men who primarily slither their way into the inner circles by sucking up to people in charge and who project to those people in charge a different personality than the one they use when dealing with their subordinates.
I'll let you decide which one you think Wallace fits into.