I mean, this was the covid elections; he wasn’t the guy telling people to take hydroxycloroquine for covid so he won by default.

Progressive? In the sense he’s a TYT (radical liberal alternative media) style lib, sure for what that’s worth. Based? Not by either definition as far as I know.

And to be clearhe had a stroke,he wasn’t bonked on the head. Also there is some skeletons in his closet from during his time as mayor as others have mentioned before, it was foolish to get overly excited about this guy from the beginning.