Politicians you like who are unpopular on Atlas

[America Needs R'hllor]

John McCain, Michael Bloomberg, pre-2008 Giuliani, the Clintons.

[Goldwater]

McCain is the first one that comes to mind.

[Crumpets]

The Clintons
JFK
Colin Powell (not sure how much he's actually unpopular, but he doesn't seem to win many trophies here)
And while I don't "like" Henry Kissinger, I've read two of his books and I definitely like him as an author.

[DavidB.]

Err, most of them, I guess?

[President Johnson]

- Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (the very best; one of my political heroes)
- Gerhard Schröder (underrated guy)
- Richard Nixon (a very interesting/fascinating figure)
- Tom Corbett

Not sure whether Lyndon Johnson is that unpopular here. But he would be the very number one.

[Rob Bloom]

Jeremy Corbyn - an utterly sincere politician who didn't dodge when he was under extreme pressure. Yet around here he is mocked constantly for being too soft.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Conservatives/Corey Booker

[Beet]

Both Clinton's, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Cory Booker, and Brianna Wu. Also, I have a soft spot for Jean Luc Melenchon.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     There are not many politicians I like. Ron Paul, I guess?

George Wallace (probably my favorite political figure)
Richard Nixon
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Vladimir Putin (contrary to common belief, I don't love him, but I do admire some things about him)
Robert Byrd
Lindsey Graham
Jeb Bush
Hillary Clinton
Lester Maddox
Zell Miller
George W. Bush
Chris Christie


.... and of course, Donald J. Trump.

May I ask why?  Was a pretty liberal politician, and I'd hope we'd agree his stance on segregation was regrettable at best.

Anyway, Hamilton, Coolidge, Rockefeller, Reagan, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, for me.  At least off the top of my head.

no.

On economic issues he was to the left of Nixon and Reagan

Yes, more discriminatory and exclusive on who should receive economic aid on economic issues as well.

I feel like you're insinuating that because his policies and ideas often promoted racism and inequality that stops him from being a liberal, and we're just going to have to agree to disagree there.

Those ideals are fundamentally contradictory so yes. Economically he was more left-wing for white people, so that part is correct.

     This is how National Socialism still qualified as a right-wing ideology, though some on the right will try to brand it as leftist. While it embraced many economic programs that were on the face left-wing, National Socialist theories of social division were unequivocally right-wing in nature.

[TDAS04]

     There are not many politicians I like. Ron Paul, I guess?

George Wallace (probably my favorite political figure)
Richard Nixon
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Vladimir Putin (contrary to common belief, I don't love him, but I do admire some things about him)
Robert Byrd
Lindsey Graham
Jeb Bush
Hillary Clinton
Lester Maddox
Zell Miller
George W. Bush
Chris Christie


.... and of course, Donald J. Trump.

May I ask why?  Was a pretty liberal politician, and I'd hope we'd agree his stance on segregation was regrettable at best.

Anyway, Hamilton, Coolidge, Rockefeller, Reagan, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, for me.  At least off the top of my head.

no.

On economic issues he was to the left of Nixon and Reagan

Yes, more discriminatory and exclusive on who should receive economic aid on economic issues as well.

I feel like you're insinuating that because his policies and ideas often promoted racism and inequality that stops him from being a liberal, and we're just going to have to agree to disagree there.

Those ideals are fundamentally contradictory so yes. Economically he was more left-wing for white people, so that part is correct.

     This is how National Socialism still qualified as a right-wing ideology, though some on the right will try to brand it as leftist. While it embraced many economic programs that were on the face left-wing, National Socialist theories of social division were unequivocally right-wing in nature.

I tend to agree.  I associate the general concept of equality with the left, whether economic or social.  Segregationist Democrats in the Deep South (such as Theodore Bilbo) did often use populist rhetoric and may have claimed to have been for the poor or "common man", but they clearly favored a rigid social structure in society.  They wanted blacks--never just a small portion of the South's population--to remain at the bottom of the social structure, economically and socially, with virtually no rights or dignity.  That is not left-wing.

[NeverAgain]

Bill and Hillary Clinton
Andrew Cuomo
Ralph Northam
Michael Bloomberg
Jimmy Carter
Dick Gephardt
John Kerry
Al Gore
George H. W. Bush