It doesn't really matter if his own party lets Trump get away with the things he says. The dems are probably pleased that they do because no doubt the dems have a long, well-sourced list, c/w videos, of all these things to bring out at the appropriate time.
I have some confidence that the majority of Americans are not idiots
Well, there is great evidence that many Americans are idiots, but is there enough evidence to decide whether or not the majority are idiots? Furthermore, it could be argued that the electorate is not a representative sample of the entire population. Therefore the question is whether or not the majority of voters are idiots. We may soon find out.
Meanwhile, a couple of quotes from Mencken
"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
" (September 1926)
And the put-a-moron-in-the-White-House quote in context.
"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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