Can’t have any human saviors looking good.
At least he would, by his own admission, be sober in the morning ... whereas his critic in that instance would still be ugly.
So what if Churchill drank?
Many an 18th century American was a proverbial, if not literal, boozing, chain smoking, honor obsessed, braggart who possibly didn’t bathe all that regularly ... and they were still much better men, whose company I would prefer, than all these genteel post-modern nitwits we have a surplus population of today.
And Churchill was no savior, just a politician with vision and backbone ... which is rare enough without trying to make more of him than he was....