This is back when Obama was still just a punk street agitator.
And pervert biden was only a decade into his half century career as a corrupt politician.
Koch had his moments. My favorite was when a bunch of homeless people were outside protesting and he came out and offered them $10 jobs cleaning the city. They wanted no part of it. It was a bona fide offer, too. Koch wanted to solve the problem.
On the other hand, he was pushing the abortion/homo agenda hard. His Executive Order 50 tried to force religious institutions to hire perverts. Cardinal O’Connor, the Salvation Army and some Orthodox Jewish groups resisted.
Koch, to his credit, never considered such opponents personally evil or unworthy of a hearing.
Koch also didn’t work well with Trump when Trump tried to help with the city, because Koch viewed such projects through a bureaucratic lens.
Trump’s precursors are more in the way of Pat Buchanan, and in a limited way, George Wallace and Ross Perot.
I’d also nominate JFK for having 70-80% of populism right. His family was very corrupt however and as we have seen from years of public proctological exams of Trump, he is shockingly clean. I bet there is not another billionaire alive who could have gone through a faction of the investigations as cleanly as DJT.