“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”           ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

The democrats proved that also! But like you said "As always in American politics, after it's too late." We made it through 8 years of the Obama dystopian regressive policy agendas and you swallowed it OK!