Daley was a hero in my parents Democrat voting house.
Well, sure. And they weren’t wrong in some ways.
Somebody pointed out that people will tolerate a crook, so long as he’s competent. Daley was by most accounts pretty shady. But he did his job, and I think he probably loved Chicago.
And - people will overlook incompetence to some degree, if they aren’t a crook. The problem now, is our “leaders” are in too many instances completely incompetent as politicians, and brazen crooks.
This is a situation that resolves itself, eventually.