"tried to undermine the Franklyn Roosevelt Administration. FDR did not roll over and let this happen. This is why he was elected many times."
So the rules were changed so that this could not happen again... :-)
And now there is an 'underground' move to remove compulsory voting in Australia and go to the 'enlightened' method of 'only vote if you are not lazy' ....
"If he doesn't take a stand against them, he will have undermined his chances for re-election."
And if he does, the conspiracy theorists will go into overdrive - they have already convinced about 25% of 'stupid Yanks' that he is a practicing Muslim ...
"The public opinion is manufactured, in many ways. Existing discontent is channeled by those whose agenda may be more self-serving."