Bad Decisions Made by Those in Charge
The guy doesn’t like himself very much, but there’s nothing he can do to change things. That’s a deliciously ironic thing to say; wow. Instead of running for office and trying to get people to vote for him, he brags about how he doesn’t need their votes. Because of this, the vast majority of them will no longer support him. We can call this a “classic” because it is so well-known.
I think he needs to take a long look at himself in the mirror and be honest about what he sees. He might have thought the public liked him more than they did. Even though he promised over and over again that the project would work, it’s possible that voters still didn’t give him a yes. No matter what happened, he had to deal with a lot of the real world.