Classic ‘perfect storm’ scenerio.
Eric Hoffer’s ‘True Believers’ mass movement.
That’s why no one asked critical questions about Obama. Pure absence of critical thinking. i.e. Change? To What? Some knew on both sides, the rest didn’t care they just ‘Believed’. You cannot convince True Believers. You can only convert them.
God help us.
"Convert them", how? By definition, it's not possible.