Where do you see yourself as a politician, in a totalitarian political environment? Have you not been watching the ritual humiliation of the American political apparatus for the last few months? You think the leopards are going to eat your face last when you're the closest meal to hand?
If you're a politician in a democracy, those kids out there in black-bloc hoodies protesting encroaching fascism are also, not incidentally, trying to save your fucking job and your dumb, shortsighted ass.