no it is because

we tend to treat our BASE like the crazy old lady in the attic whose social security check we loot. If nothign else, Trump showed that a base, if properly fed, can have power, but our base, meh, we ignore them and expect them to clean our ashtrays and toilets. Hillary got better after DWS was ditched, because she started ditching the TPP and the Pipeline, two dalring gems of the centre left.