Your comment made me stop and try to remember a Democrat politician whom I actually liked. Even though I was raised Dem, I can only think of JFK and RFK, but I was a kid when they were around, and didn't know any better.
Searching my memory, I can't think of a single Dem I honestly liked during my adult life. Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley comes to mind, but I was so tuned out to politics, I'm not sure he counts. I just remember that my home town was still a decent place to live when he ran it.
Honestly, Reagan was the first politician I can remember personally liking, but he was a former Democrat. I didn't even vote for him, but he earned my respect and admiration.
It’s bad enough to make one pine for Dennis Kucinich... at the very least, the man did not walk in lockstep with orders from high above as the rest of them do.
Author of the 1965 report The Negro Family, The Case for National Action, he predicted much of the inner-city pathology, caused by the absence of fathers, that we see today. Leftist critics denounced Moynihan for it.