The problem with that statement, is that it ignores the rot in those institutions that allowed the leader of the party to seize control and subordinate the government to him. Same as with these democrats. Anything unfairly attacked and the establishment lead their sheep and cynical bedfellows to defend the attacked in all things. Be it one of our captured federal agencies, and they all are captured by the forces they are supposed to control and regulate, or the democratic process.

Everyone knows the system isn't working well, and that it's getting worse. By not acknowledging that, let alone trying to fix it, they lose credibility, and support. The president got a lot of supporters because he did acknowledge the rot in the country, and promised to fix it. He looked like he was fighting the system, and a victim of it too, and we all know the voters by and large don't know better.

Everything was strained before, the president took control through the alternate reality the rich funneled us into, not just republican aligned voters but corporate media's "center left" aligned crowd as well is in an alternate reality to different degrees.

Without offering popular reform there is no way to take the country back, and Christie and his ilk are the old guard whose mission is to prevent popular reform.