Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves in, "O my prophetic soul!"

"It is a mistake...to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort." 

And so we re-elect Trump, a man who has already damaged this country and this world so much, because he makes empty promises about lowering the price of eggs. 

So it goes.