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Note to Stephen King
The moment when candidate Greg Stillson, the rotten politician in The Dead Zone, uses a tyke to shield himself from a bullet, thus revealing his total lack of character or morals and ending his career, wouldn't work now. His base would cheer him for "sacrificing the vulnerable."