Marrion Barry is my go to politician when I start thinking that I would always vote for a Dem.
Corrupt, and flashy, and sleezy with a devoted following who would keep electing him, even after being convicted of perjury and drug possession, and serving 6 months in prison. Still nowhere near as incompetent as Trump.
I would suggest that you don’t have to use the “____ lives matter” format in every instance where a person dies and that you recently started a thread about how you having trouble with push back to the use of “all lives matter” that maybe you’re not as conflicted as you claim.
Incompetence was his saving grace until this year. This year we needed some competent leadership and we didn’t get it from the Oval Office. Trump’s incompetence killed around fifty thousand Americans this year.
There is no liberal version of Trump because anyone nearly as mirror image awful as him is nowhere near the Oval office. He or she is raving on a street corner somewhere.
The question may be flawed, because Trump arguably isn’t really, and never was, a politician (except in the sense that anyone who holds a political office is a politician. But that makes him a politician in the same sense that, if I strapped you down and tried to cut out your appendix, it’d make me a surgeon). In that sense, someone like Lyndon Johnson is the polar opposite of Trump.
If we think of outsiders, non-politicans who entered politics, Jesse Ventura reminds me a little of Trump—but he’s far from a perfect parallel.
Not to mention that it was the existence of emails on Weiner’s laptop that prompted Comey to reopen the investigation into Hillary 11 days before the election, so one slimeball indirectly helped elect the slimeballiest president ever.
That reminded me of the time when Weiner was a joke. Then I wondered if children saw his images (they did). Then his contribution to the email scandal. Fortunately he never held that much power.
To answer the OP, I can think of no American left-wing politician that bad. Hugo Chavez comes to mind thinking about any left-wing elected politician that bad. (Chavez actually won an election. I’m not counting Fidel Castro as I don’t believe Castro ever ran for office.)
Unfortunately true. But this isn’t attributable to Trump’s acumen in picking jurists; in this regard, he’s a Gov. LePetomane, just signing what McConnell and the Federalist Society put in front of him.
Don’t forget his younger brother Earl Long. Corrupt, petty, eccentric and had a thing for strippers. In his last term as governor, he was confined to a psychiatric hospital for mental illness. Rather than resign, he had the head of the state hospital system fired and appointed a supporter as a replacement who then ordered Long to be released.
Also, another vote for Marion Barry to be on the list.
“Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city,” Sen. John C. Danforth (R-Mo.) told Mr. Barry at a 1989 hearing on the D.C. budget. “Others are incompetent but considered clean. [Washington’s] government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.” And that was before the “Bitch set me up!” sex and drugs scandal and imprisonment.