Perhaps this is why Churchill opined that democracy is the worst form government, apart from all the others and why he is reported to have said, America will do the right thing after it tries everything else. Eventually the voters get around to the right answer.
Finally, I am very leery of surrendering power to elitists even on the promise of saving us from the vast unwashed electorate. Therein lies path to tyranny -as we all have just so shockingly seen in the twitter /FBI collaboration up elitists.
Knowing these things, or rather believing these things, one must nevertheless concede that the electorate has been way off course the last two elections. I think I expressed my view as to what has caused voters to vote against their own best interests in my previous reply.
The temptation is to blame the electorate, blame the people. The temptation is to short cut the process, to go for a top-down solution rather than a bottom up remedy, to reach for the charismatic figure on horseback to ride to the rescue.
We must avoid these temptations and hold fast the truths that founded this Republic in the first place, ultimately to trust the people because there is no place else to go.
