"Then came 2010 and the election of Rob Ford as mayor. He spent the next four years trying his best to turn Toronto the Good into something like Deadwood, run by the Snopeses.
"Ford was 300 pounds of redneck belligerence with the face of a malevolent baby, playing to his sour constituency of have-nots by sticking it to the Toronto establishment (just about anybody who could spell), without noticeably achieving anything else."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/farewell-rob-ford.html?_r=0