What a fool. The Rats saw it as weakness and used it to destroy him.
They indeed proved to be poisonous “friends” if so. One term, and then we had President Clinton. Though again, Ross Perot with his ill fated populist movement siphoned off what would decades later be voting for Donald Trump. Don’t discount that as a huge clue to what was brewing. We Americans would rather have an honestly wicked Democrat than a pretentious, elitist Republican (and Barack Obama proved that again).