An active alcoholic is never a better choice
Personally, I’d take Churchill over Hitler—but that’s just me. I have strayed from the upright ways of my Baptist and WCTU ancestors.
Perhaps you do not fully appreciate Canadian culture. At a nineteenth century debate, I believe involving two individuals who would both eventually become PM, though I forget the details, one of them delivered a line to the other to the effect “Excuse me, but there is only room for one drunk on this stage.”