Disillusionment

The Boston Globe isn't anybody's idea of a conservative paper, it's owned by The New York Times. That makes the following quote from an opinion piece in the Globe particularly interesting:

Six years on, in many important ways, Barack Obama has become a figure of American disappointment with last week’s inexplicable failure to properly honor the trauma of France only a latest instance of mystifying solecism.

By now even many of his once-passionate admirers admit to a profound disenchantment.

When your friends turn on you, you're toast.