Robo, your analogy works on a number of levels but the closest is that Corbyn is receiving the same treatment from our right wing as Obama was from your republicans. You can see how good a hatchet job they have done on him by reading the comments on here. He may be far from perfect but, as politicians go, he is most certainly head and shoulders above May's marauders. The fact that he has the entire right wing in arms against him shows how scared they are and what a good job he is doing for the left.