Just like long suffering Russians who refused to blame Tsar Nicholas and (later) Stalin for their misery but the hacks around them.
Same with the post world war II Germans and the holocaust. Alot of, "Surely the Fuhrer didn't know what was happening or he would have put a stop to it."
Nowdays, Dem politicians have it pretty good. Their followers blindly follow and never question anything they do or say. Always some flunky who is messing up the works.