Aside from missing WWDTM today because we had a fantastic Summer day and I was pulling weeds (that are also trees) at a park across town, I have a more jaundiced view of the Dems. I'd heard the Hilary's husband story. But I also remember Bill's endorsement for her during the 2016 convention which I thought was so self serving it buried the lead. Other than a few of those kinds of stories I kind of like that folks like Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, and others kind of outrage the opposition. Al Sharpton is a long time guttersnipe, but he is in the American guttersnipe tradition. You have to deal with 'em as you find 'em. And another interesting book that interprets some of these folks would be Tom Wolfe's very excellent and discomforting "Bonfire of the Vanities." He had an Al Sharpton character in there.
Anotther book that is even less relevant to our politics of the day but is sort of relevant to the politics it came from is "The Chester A. Arthur Conspiracy." The premise to that one is too wild to mention here, it is Americn political fiction but it does purport to bring to life some unsavory American politicians who really lived and breathed.