I don't believe that they're sorry they did, I think it's just a much more deeper feeling of embarrassment. It's a guilty pleasure so to speak.
What this article dances around but didn't address, (because it would seem like a compliment, which we know isn't coming from Commentary) which to me, I believe is the reason most people supported and still do support him is that whether he's vulgar or polite, rude and obnoxious or reserved and "Presidential" -- he exudes a feeling of "genuine-ness".
What you see is what you get.
A freedom to act as you want free of the constraints society has heaped upon us. That's very appealing. People can gain some measure of themselves back vicariously through him. This goes beyond just the agree or disagree stage of what he says, but deeper into that he says it. Millions of people every day have to check themselves and think about how what they're about to say is going to be perceived and how that will affect them in the positive or the negative, what's the fall out gonna be, is it going to make me shine or look like an imbecile, is this person gonna be offended, how are they gonna take this, should I say it, so on and so forth...
It's his reckless abandon that people admire, because in the "lower echelons" in our society, the trades, the blue collar types -- that's how people speak to one another, or at least they use to.
That's because there was a time not so long ago that people weren't out looking to take offense at what other people said to them. Benefit of the doubt was given because it was assumed everyone was basically a good person and not looking to insult anyone.
Part of what I have taken from the "Make America Great Again" slogan (and a lot of people have agreed with me *anecdotal I know) is simply to turn America back to another time when everyone didn't have a stick up their ass.
That's the way I see it, anyhow...:shrug:
