We might keep in mind that Franklin Roosevelt as well as being admired and revered and emulated by many people, was also by others the most hated and feared and despised and denigrated man in America. The American electorate - including those who don't vote!- is a many-headed beast.

I remember my own parents darkly insinuating that the President's crippling was not due to polio at all but some unnamed despicable disease...