Your favourite American politicians

[LAKISYLVANIA]

1. Bernie Sanders
2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3. Richard Ojeda
4. Tulsi Gabbard
5. Elizabeth Warren
6. Jeff Merkley
7. Rashida Tlaib
8. Ilhan Omar
9. Andrew Yang
10. J.D. Scholten
11. Pete Buttigieg
12. Cory Booker
13. Ayanna Pressley
14. Stacey Abrams
15. Cory Booker
16. Jared Polis
17. Jay Inslee
18. Eric Swalwell
19. Sheldon Whitehouse
20. Chris Murphy

[HillGoose]

1. DICK CHENEY
2. Liz Cheney
3. Nikki Haley
4. John McAfee
5. Idk who else

[😥]

Many. First who came to mind: Joe Biden, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey Jr., Dick Durbin, Jon Tester, Lisa Murkowski, Charlie Baker, Mark Boughton, Phil Scott, Amy Klobuchar, Steve Bullock, Joe Donnelly, John Bel Edwards, Marcy Kaptur, Josh Svaty, Stephanie Murphy, Conor Lamb, Joe Cunningham, Mikkie Sherrill, Rob Portman, Chris Murphy

[President Johnson]

Only politicans who are holding an office right now or are running for a major job:

1. Joe Biden (D-DE)
2. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY)
3. Steve Bullock (D-MT)
4. Kathy Hochul (D-NY)
5. Jon Tester (D-MT)
6. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI)
7. Harley Rouda (D-CA)
8. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA)
9. Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
10. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
11. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)
12. Tom Wolf (D-PA)
13. Letitia James (D-NY)
14. Nanette Barragan (D-CA)
15. Ned Lamont (D-CT)
16. Charlie Baker (R-MA)
17. Steve Sisolak (D-NV)
18. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL)
19. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
20. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
21. John Lewis (D-GA)
22. Phil Scott (R-VT)
23. Michael Bloomberg (D-NY)
24. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV)
25. Laura Kelly (D-KS)

Retired (living) politicians worth mentioning: Barack Obama, Al Gore, Jerry Brown.


All of them are massive FFs.

[Kingpoleon]

Tlaib and Omar have actually decried the coup against Maduro as an attempt at a “far-right military dictatorship.” In spite of this, Christian Democrats, conservatives, centrists, liberals, and social democrats in Venezuela have all backed the National Assembly Guaido government.

[RaphaelDLG]

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are by far my favorite two

[Velasco]

Bernie anders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke, The Squad and Pete Buttiglieg

[YE]

In no particular order:

Marcy Kaptur
Tim Walz
Mark Pocan
Elizabeth Warren
Sherrod Brown
Tammy Baldwin
Peter DeFazio
John Yarmuth
Matt Cartwright
Jerod Golden
Bernie Sanders
Catherine Cortez Masto
Pramila Jayapal
Dina Titus
Martin Heinrich
Jeff Merkely
Ed Markey
Steve Bullock
Jay Inslee
JD Scholten
Brian Schweitzer

[John Dule]

18. Eric Swalwell

Literally what the f**k.

[Green Line]

Dan Lipinski
Judy Biggert
Judy Baar Topinka
Ed Burke
Fran Hurley
Anita Alvarez
Henry Hyde
Dan Cronin
Olympia Snowe
Richard M Daley
Richard J Daley
Dan Ryan
George W Bush
Kelly M Burke
Donald Rumsfeld

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Forgot Ro Khanna and Keith Ellison.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Joe Kennedy
Tim Ryan
Cory Booker
Elizabeth Warren

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Bernie Sanders (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Al Gore (D)
Mitt Romney (R)
Barack Obama (D)
Joe Biden (D)
Bill Clinton (D)
George W. Bush (R)
Roy Moore (R)
Mitch McConnell (R)

Does Andrew Yang Count? If so I will add him to this list.

[Sir Mohamed]

Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, London Breed, Ted Lieu, Katie Porter, Katie Hill, Jerry Brown, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Tammy Baldwin, Gretchen Whitmer, Dick Durbin, Sherrod Brown.

Probably forgot a couple of good ones.

[Lourdes]

The Squad
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Pramila Jayapal
Kshama Sawant
Stacey Abrams

[Alben Barkley]

Bernie Sanders (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Al Gore (D)
Mitt Romney (R)
Barack Obama (D)
Joe Biden (D)
Bill Clinton (D)
George W. Bush (R)
Roy Moore (R)
Mitch McConnell (R)

Does Andrew Yang Count? If so I will add him to this list.

You might have gotten away with your trolling as a dirtbag centrist if you hadn't snuck Roy Moore in there.

Anyway, my favorites? FDR, Truman, LBJ, and Clinton (both of them). I like JFK and Obama too, but they were ultimately better as inspirational speakers than effective politicians. And Jimmy Carter was a real nice guy, possibly my favorite human being to ever be a politician, but AS a politician? Not so much.

Expanding the list beyond presidents (aside from Hillary)? Well it's an eclectic list. Al Gore, RFK, Henry Clay, Harry Reid, Mario Cuomo, Alexander Hamilton, Tip O'Neill, Hubert Humphrey, Nancy Pelosi, Wendell Ford, Alben Barkley, I could go on and on.

I find the mentions of "The Squad" and Bernie to be kind of cringeworthy, to be honest. There have been so many politicians throughout our nation's history who have accomplished so much, and you go with people who have never accomplished anything more impactful than a tweet?

[GeneralMacArthur]

The GOAT: Barney Frank
Bill Clinton, best to ever do it
Joe Biden
John Delaney
Pete Buttigieg
John Kasich (congressman form)
Bill Weld (governor form)
Olympia Snowe
Mike Bloomberg
Jack Reed
Sheldon Whitehouse
Mark Warner
Robert Gates
Henry Kissinger

And of course, Barack Obama. I miss you bruh

[GeneralMacArthur]

I find the mentions of "The Squad" and Bernie to be kind of cringeworthy, to be honest. There have been so many politicians throughout our nation's history who have accomplished so much, and you go with people who have never accomplished anything more impactful than a tweet?

You can always tell the people who get 100% of their political information from The Young Turks and /r/politics, because the politicians they like are entirely Bernie and Friends Of Bernie, or super-trendy politician of the week like Stacey Abrams.

At least Lourdes had the dignity to include Kshama Sawant.  By the way Lourdes did you know that 100% of Sawant's votes are decided by the Socialist Alternative board of directors in Brooklyn?  They also pre-write 100% of her speeches and manage all the hiring/firing decisions in her office.  She's literally the textbook definition of a puppet, controlled by people who have never been to Seattle.  Just found that interesting (as a constituent of hers).

[scutosaurus]

Michael Bennet
Colleen Hanabusa
Neil Abercrombie
Barbara Comstock
Bill Walker
Dilma Rousseff
Jared Polis
Ed Case
Ralph Northam
Cruz Bustamante
Stephanie Murphy
John Delaney
Don Blankenship
Shireen Ghorbani
Phil Batt
Donna Shalala

All are massive FFs.

[Alben Barkley]

I find the mentions of "The Squad" and Bernie to be kind of cringeworthy, to be honest. There have been so many politicians throughout our nation's history who have accomplished so much, and you go with people who have never accomplished anything more impactful than a tweet?

You can always tell the people who get 100% of their political information from The Young Turks and /r/politics, because the politicians they like are entirely Bernie and Friends Of Bernie, or super-trendy politician of the week like Stacey Abrams.

Yup.

Also, I find it hilarious that Elizabeth Warren literally did more legislatively to impact people's lives than Bernie ever did over his decades in Congress BEFORE she even was elected, as an architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That alone is more significant than all the post offices Bernie has ever renamed.

Every time you ask a Bernie disciple to explain exactly WHAT he has done to merit their devotion or WHY I should trust him to be a successful leader politically, you get a long-winded rambling non-response about how you just don't understand the revolution, man, or something.

Nobody can ever actually answer the question and explain just what it is Bernie has done aside from rant like Howard Beale about how he's mad as hell and is not gonna take it anymore.

I genuinely fail to see how he is anything more than the Ron Paul of the left. The parallels are almost perfect. Right down to the conspiratorial skepticism of the Fed.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Every time you ask a Bernie disciple to explain exactly WHAT he has done to merit their devotion or WHY I should trust him to be a successful leader politically, you get a long-winded rambling non-response about how you just don't understand the revolution, man, or something.

Nobody can ever actually answer the question and explain just what it is Bernie has done aside from rant like Howard Beale about how he's mad as hell and is not gonna take it anymore.

Well, you see, he's just so admirably consistent.

“Bernie Sanders is a more honorable choice for Vermont sportsmen than ­Peter Smith,” wrote Wayne LaPierre, who was — and still is — a top official at the national NRA, backing Sanders over the Republican incumbent.

As a candidate in 1990, Sanders won over gun rights groups by promising to oppose one bill they hated — a measure that would establish a waiting period for handgun sales. In Congress, he kept that promise. The dynamic served as an early demonstration that, despite his pure-leftist persona, Sanders was at his core a pragmatic politician, calculating that he couldn’t win in rural Vermont without doing something for gun owners.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

[VPH]

Above state legislative (there are too many faves to name there) and since like 2014 (plus Harkin because he's an all-time fave).
Senate
OH Sen. Sherrod Brown
IL Sen. Tammy Duckworth
MN Sen. Amy Klobuchar
MT Sen. Jon Tester
PA Sen. Bob Casey
WV Sen. Joe Manchin
MA Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Fmr. IN Sen. Joe Donnelly
Fmr. MO Sen. Claire McCaskill
Fmr. IA Sen. Tom Harkin

House
KS-03 Rep. Sharice Davids
OH-09 Rep. Marcy Kaptur
PA-17 Rep. Conor Lamb
PA-08 Rep. Matt Cartwright
NJ-11 Rep. Mikie Sherrill
OH-13 Rep. Tim Ryan
TX-28 Rep. Henry Cuellar
NJ-05 Rep. Josh Gottheimer
SC-01 Rep. Joe Cunningham
MN-07 Rep. Collin Peterson
NM-02 Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small
ME-02 Rep. Jared Golden
NY-11 Rep. Max Rose
OR-04 Rep. Pete DeFazio
OR-05 Rep. Kurt Schrader
NY-19 Rep. Antonio Delgado
IL-14 Rep. Lauren Underwood
TN-05 Rep. Jim Cooper
IL-03 Rep. Dan Lipinski
NJ-04 Rep. Chris Smith
Fmr. NC-03 Rep. Walter Jones Jr.
Fmr. MN-08 Rep. Rick Nolan

Statewide
KS Gov. Laura Kelly
LA Gov. John Bel Edwards
MT Gov. Steve Bullock
PA Lt. Governor John Fetterman
MI Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist
NC SoS Elaine Marshall
WI SoS Doug LaFollette
Fmr. KY Gov Steve Beshear
Fmr. WV Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin

[Sam Smith]

Ron Paul
Rand Paul
Thomas Massie
Pat Buchanan
Mike Lee
Jimmy Duncan
John Hostettler
Matt Gaetz