Booker is a cookie-cutter / carbon copy minor-league Liberal Democrat politician. He is unethical, immoral, self/party-serving, embraces the double standard he wraps himself in when falsely accusing someone for doing something he has already admitted he did.
He is a grand-standing attention whore who put on the 'Spartacus' theatrics, attempting to make it seem to the voters that he was selfishly willing to make himself a martyr for the good of the nation when he already knew what he was doing had already been made possible / 'legal'.
His 'Spartacus moment' was his complete buy-in of Gruber's assessment of the average voter and his attempt, believing he is so much smarter than the average voter, to engage in some theatrics to fool 'the hicks'.
Booker is not a 'unique' individual. There are many like him, on both sides of the aisle. He is what John Wayne called
'All SHOW and No STAY'. He is more about image, show, theatrics, and manipulation while working the system for personal and party gain, more willing to follow the path of least resistance and join in on Mob Mentality than to 'kick it into 4WD' and blaze his own path to do what is right.
People should not take that as a complete insult - there are few true leaders like that anymore. Our society itself has eroded over years to the point that those types of leaders are rare rather than reinforcing qualities like
morals, ethics, honesty, loyalty, and hard-work.
The United States Air Force Creed is 'Integrity, Service Before Self, And Excellence In All We Do'. Great words to live by, but damn hard to do...and even in today's Air Force, despite that being their creed, they do not stress and try to teach those things any more. To some, it's just some nice words to recite and functions.