Well, a free people don’t have leaders. Instead, the citizens elect representatives who reflect their ideas in politics not the other way around.
The MSM and the NEA did an end run on that. And now-as if that wasn’t stacking the deck ENOUGH for them... they weaponized technology to deliver the coup de grace.
Somewhere in all that... ‘Republicans’ (as we used to think of ourselves) were betrayed by the GOP....yes, outright and repeatedly, ‘betrayed’.
I think both Donald Trump and President Trump have been so successful because as a citizen and as a President, Trump comprehends this and shares the same sense of betrayal.
There’s a “type“ that gets into politics. The ones that excel in politics are vermin, generally.