Who gets political power?

Regarding the revelation of Hillary's hit list, V the K writes,

Democrats always see their domestic political opposition as “enemies,” but foreign terrorists are just “militants” with legitimate grievances and hostile foreign Governments are fellow global citizens to be provided with appeasement and foreign aid; tells you a lot, doesn’t it?

A rational, intelligent population would never let people like this get anywhere near political power; but a rational, intelligent population wouldn’t have given the job to a failed community organizer with a shady background either.