Two important points: A) I do not agree with everything this reader says about Giuliani and other things, but I think it’s an interesting expression of a sentiment out there and B) this longtime reader is, himself, Italian-American:

Jonah: I think Giuliani in 1982 was “one of us.” Pro-life, married to his high school sweet heart and conservative. He ceased to be ” one of us” in the interim. I think you have struck on an important idea about him. Conservatives loved two things about Nixon: 1) his enemies; 2) his anti-communism/national defense bona fides. In office his reaction to his enemies and their obsession with him destroyed him and he moved to detente. Giuliani is like that. He is a man comfortable with serial adultery, living with gay men and, fatally, a shi tzu. He is loved for the enemies he has made and national security. I do not know however if his national security ideas will not turn to detente as he seeks to make a national security state that many conservatives will be uncomfortable with. His friends appear to be cronies, like Bebe Rebozo, and not other conservatives. As Nixon was a fake Quaker, Giuliani strikes me as a fake Catholic. Strangely, I do not think I could vote for the first Italian-America presidential nominee.

Update: From another Italian-American reader:

Whenever the prospect of voting according to one’s heritage is raised,
I, being Italian, think of Mario Cuomo and declare myself in opposition
to it.