It's really amazing, isn't it? The Republicans, too, are far from blameless: Romney was proof of the party-elite kicking the rest under the bus. -- So we can't fault them too much w/o having to fault ourselves.
I've never in my 81 years seen such stupidity. Before King Obama was elected I said, based on observations, that 2/3 of Americans are about as dumb as a box of rocks when it come to their Country.
I blame the Judiciary a lot; it is they who declare that the Constitution doesn't mean what it says (and have since at least 1919), but they do so with an air of legitimacy.
Still I bet that half of that are still fools.
More than a little of that is due to the public schoosl indoctrination-centers.