They’re like the mob in thebHoly Grail who want to burn the witch.
They are called voters, they are the electorate and in a representative, constitutional democracy those who seek to rule over us for an election cycle can either lead them and head them or despise them. The Democrats despise them as "deplorable's," or "racists," or "Nazis."
Over the long haul of American history, while few would describe the electorate as the perfect vehicle, it remains our ultimate check on tyranny. Without the people, we are lost. The cure for an electorate one does not agree with is not to despise them or belittle them but to give them a better more persuasive idea.
Trump gave them a better idea in 2016. Too bad his rough edges led too many voters to believe that he was not worthy.
It is not a question of "fair weather" friendship, it is a question of obtaining consent to rule over us. That power has to be earned, it is never owed, Trump is still worthy in my opinion but he makes his task to win that power, and mine as a voter, more difficult-and for no good reason.
