I think you are right.
Part of it is probably due to the vitriol toward Trump. Part of it is they crying thing.
But there’s something else he’s been doing that I think is driving people away. It seems like every problem that comes down the pike, he automatically wants to go to the “what would MLK/Gandhi do?” card. I’m sorry, but you’re speaking to conservatives. We are more interested in what would Washington do? What would Jefferson do? What would Reagan do?
Martin Luther King was, by his own admission, a “Democratic Socialist”. As in, the same as Bernie Sanders. Gandhi is always quoted by people as “liking Christ but not Christians”. You can’t keep quoting people who are heroes of the left to a right wing audience and think that at some point there wont be some disillusionment. We aren’t all going to get all giddy about singing “We Shall Overcome”.
He’s gotten very good lately at making people feel like crap and guilty because they’re not doing enough. His FB posts are long and rambling essays about we need to stand up and be counted. We have to strand with Israel and now he wants to bring all the Syrian refugees. He keeps saying stand up and be counted. I think he needs to go away for a long rest.