S.I. Hayakawa was great.
Like Trump, he wasn’t a professional politician and he won that US Senate seat the very first time he ever ran for anything.
A hero in California for standing up against the demonstrators at San Francisco State University.
As I recall, one of his campaign buttons said, “Sayonara Tunney.”
I remember that “Moon” Reagan, RR’s brother, was actively against Hayakawa in the 1982 reelection attempt. The GOP turned to the more liberal Pete Wilson, who actually beat Jerry Brown.