The Ed Keenan article linked to above is well written, as is normally the case with Keenan's work - though the subhuman pro-Ford trolls responding to it in the comments section: Ye Gods!!! - but it misses the mark just ever so slightly IMO. What Keenan fails to take into account is that many of us, possibly even most of us, are being subjected to this carnival sideshow whether we want it or not. It's like sitting next to some extremely loud party in a restaurant; in that situation, you're being forced to eavesdrop against your will, and any complaints to the management are entirely depenent on how reasonable the other party is willing to be. If they're contrite, and tone it down some, fine. If not, well...You're stuck there until you finish your meal, unless the disruption's so bad that you decide to bail altogether.
Of course, if the people causing the disturbance are so disruptive, then they can be thrown out, right? But that rather depends on how willing the management is to police their establishment. If the other party's behavior comes just short of crossing that line, but is still bad enough to spoil your evening, then you're fucked. Or let's say their behavior is bad enough to justify being thrown out, but the management is too gutless to do so. That would seem to be the closest analogy to Ford's stranglehold on city council, particularly with the spineless likes of Nunziata supposedly overseeing things.
Like it or not, Ford is still Mayor (in name at least), and his behavior simply isn't something we can ignore. I might also add that following the seemingly endless tabloid trash series that is the Ford Family dynamic in the hopes of finally seeing His Oafship get some comeuppance is hardly the same thing as being addicted to Ford's scumbag antics as such. Believe me, I'll be happy when he finally slithers off the public stage for good, and I never have to think about him again.