They won't condone his actions because they don't think he's capable of doing anything wrong..
and most agree with his Socialist agenda, they think the Government should be our full time nanny and that "Government" should have full and total control over our lives..
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)