outsider

But it also contributed to growing tensions between Gascón and his line prosecutors, who were frustrated by the idea their decisions could be overridden by an outsider.

Under such conditions, it’s hard to know which came first: our president-elect, or Americans who distrust each other as much as they do outsiders, the federal government and factual reporting.

Lurie pitched himself as a political outsider whom voters could rely on to usher in a new era of accountability and good governance.

“Like in high school when you’re not part of a group — you know how you felt like the outsider, but you felt like you belonged?”

They were both these outsiders from the boroughs with tremendous life force and ambition with a shared, I think, lack of scruple or ethical core, for whom winning was the only moral measure.