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Jerningham Wakefield, a New Zealand politician who was such a notorious drunk, his friends would lock him in Parliament overnight to keep him sober enough to vote the next day. However, this failed in 1872 when his political enemies began lowering bottles of whisky down the chimney.

Despite his bad reputation, Emperor Nero was adored by the common people and his policies consistently favored the poor. He lowered taxes, ensured their legal aid and promoted art and culture instead of violent sports. The historians that vilified him were rich senators, his political enemies

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1. Andrew Jackson chose a donkey as the Democratic Party's mascot because his political enemies called him a jackass.

2. Early in Julius Caesar's life, he was ambassador to the court of King Nicomedes IV of Bithynia and spent so much time there that rumors emerged that the two were lovers. Political enemies of Caesar would refer to him as the "Queen of Bithynia"

3. The Cuban government operated internment camps for political enemies and LGBT citizens in the 60s.

4. Cicero was regarded as Rome's greatest lawyer, so when his political enemies moved against him, they didn't dare allow him a chance at a trial. Instead they placed him outside of the law by punishing anyone (everyone not him) who offered him "fire and water"--thereby exiling him from Italy.

5. About Nazi Werewolves! “The original strategy in 1944-5 was not to win the war by guerrilla operations, but merely to stem the tide, delaying the enemy long enough to allow for a political settlement favorable to Germany,” writes historian Perry Biddiscombe Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.

6. Nixon's aides maintained a master list of political enemies to harass via tax audits and prosecution -- notable figures included Noam Chomsky, Shirley Chrisholm, Sargent Shriver, and Bill Cosby

7. Prohibition-era lawmen J. Edgar Hoover and Eliot Ness were intense political enemies who often sought to damage and undermine each others' careers