Giuliani is like a tragic figure from a Shakespeare play.

[kentuck]

He was praised as "America's Mayor" after 9/11. He had pulled his city together after the terrorist attack.

He was also known as a strict law and order guy. Although his tactics were criticized, the crime rate in NYC dropped dramatically while he was the Mayor.

But, in Shakespearean fashion, he was arrogant beyond the limits of normalcy. He could arrest people but he could never see himself being arrested for anything.

Perhaps his most fatal character flaw was his vulnerability for the limelight. He was power hungry. He saw Donald Trump as a means to getting power and maintaining his need for the limelight.

In the end, as in a Shakespeare play, he will not rejoice in a happy ending. His story will end tragically. Perhaps broke and in prison?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Naw, he's always been an arrogant douche. He was just less manic

and incoherent before he started working for Trump.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. or he has always been just another conservative a hole.

[Trenzalore]

3. He's pretty much always been an asshole

He had a good moment right after 9/11 but so did George W. Bush for 15 minutes.

[malaise]

4. Beautifully stated

Attention freaks never know when to throw in the towel.

[Ahpook]

5. You some what give him credence and

a bit of sympathy.

Deserves none! Throw that rat fuck in jail asap.

[vlyons]

6. More like one of then comic characters

Falstaff, Nick Bottom, Polonius,

[NewJeffCT]

16. Malvolio from 12th Night

ends up humiliated and his love for Olivia goes unrequited.

[earthside]

7. More like a comic figure ...

... who is getting his comeuppance.

[irisblue]

8. Falstaff more like. And even Falstaff had issues.

For near a day 18 years ago, that chicken hawk Bush & his minions bawwked around the country on AF 1, leaving a wounded country to grab onto anyone, elected, who acted like an upright caring person. Mr Giuliani looked good those days.

We needed a "hero" he was the closest male, and his mythology was born.

[MineralMan]

9. More like Falstaff in Henry IV Part 1.

Too late. GMTA.

[irisblue]

11. Retirement has given me the chance to re-read classics. 📚

I'm using it

[MineralMan]

15. Great idea!

I do the same. Many years ago, I read all of the Shakespeare plays. I'm working through them again now.

[lindysalsagal]

10. More like a washed-up circus barker.

[Wounded Bear]

12. He thinks he's Iago, the devious manipulator...

in reality, he's Puck, who fucks everything thing up, then bemoans "what fools these mortals be."

Apologies to Aristus. I'm sure he'll straighten me out on this one.

[Tanuki]

13. Maybe more like Saunder Simcox in Henry VI, "the lyingest knave

in Christendom."

[Golden Raisin]

14. Shakespeare way too elevated for Giuliani.

He's more like one of the frenzied, buffoon-like stock figures from Commedia dell'Arte.