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Giuliani was a pretty good mayor at the time he was first elected. No, willravel, he wasn't a useless piece of shit. His willfulness is exactly what was needed to get some order in a city that was close to falling apart. I live in NYC and I was afraid in 1993 that if Dinkins was re-elected there would be no city left by the end of his second term. Giuliani is a bulldog, which at that particular point in NYC's history is what was needed (NYC is a very very blue place, and the only reason Republican Giuliani was elected is because Dinkins was a total disaster and the city was teetering at the edge of unlivability). But by the middle of his second term he was bored and started doing crazy shit. And I most certainly don't want him to be president - he has noticeable authoritarian and power-grabbing tendencies, and giving him the sort of power that Article II confers on presidents would not be a good thing. I have doubts that he really does believe in things like free speech and dissent. So no, I don't want him to be president - but that doesn't mean he was a useless piece of shit. He was what NYC needed in 1993. He is not what the USA needs now.
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