Agreed.
Never heard it described that way, but I love it.
I think you’re onto something. We had LePage here in Maine. Total shithead. No decorum. Later he bragged that he was, “Trump before Trump was Trump,” in the political arena. While LePage was systematically making our state worse, my cousin said, “I like him because he says what he thinks!”
When I responded that, “but what he thinks is really shitty and it’s hurting people,” my cousin just shrugged. 
