Listen, no one is perfect and without failings, but when you are up for leadership positions, be it CEO, President or senator, etc, there are certain behaviors and utterances that are disqualifying because you are held to a higher standard by the public.

Realistically, the key to getting and retaining these positions are either not engaging in those behaviors/utterances, or if you did in the past, find a way to prevent it from surfacing.

POTUS openly does and says things that go beyond the pale, and everybody knows it. His populist rhetoric however, plays to the darker angels of many white disaffected voters and has hit a chord, leaving a good number of them firmly under his trance. In contrast, I am aware of no Democrat aspiring for the presidency that is anywhere near his extreme.

As parents we teach our own kids about the importance of honesty, integrity, and that character matters, and yet under the spell of his flute, POTUS supporters have chosen to conveniently ignore these ideals.