An inference too far
No argument that power corrupts... but, do you really believe that the majority of popular votes in the last presidential election came from people who wish ill to this nation and its citizens???
Besides which, the answer to question 2 is: b) Republicans. No wartime president has yet to lose an election, regardless of the course of the war. (Kennedy was killed, LBJ chose not to run - subsequent wars have not lasted through an election)