>It's a curiously partisan reflection then. Example: ABC killing of the Epstein story years ago. How many children were abused in the years since? Were it Fox, you can be sure the rest of the Fourth Pillar would be all over it for the good of the nation. That's not reflection, it's projection.

The press is not the story, unless you let it become the story.

>General Winter did great things for Russia and General Prosperity certainly did the same in Ireland. As for Reagan and Gorbachev: I suppose current comparison would be seeking of more balanced relationships with North Korea and China? Maybe Mexico and Canada too?

Rudy Giuliani almost single handedly took on the NJ mob and then turned NYC, which had been declared unmanageable during the 1980's into one the best managed cities in the world.
He was a Republican mayor in the bluest of blue cities.

Since then he's lost a few of his brain cells, I fear.
But if there ever was an example of the power of good leadership, it was Rudy.