Concluding line: “Cleveland was never especially beloved, but he was respected,” Senik says, “and that was precisely because the public knew that he’d do what he thought was right rather than what he thought was politically expedient.”
He won the pie eating contest...
A democrat who was a fiscal conservative.
The Cleveland and Trump phenomena were salmost mirror images in how the elections happened. Harrison’s Electoral win and popular vote loss- Ceveland’s sex charges, then Harrisons political favors charges and Cleveland’s second win.
And it is amazing that, with all seats of power against him (media, government, most big donors, etc.), Trump won three consecutive presidential elections (but was cheated out of one).