We wish President Donald Trump could listen to the phone calls, hear the voicemails or scan the emails. He has strong, solid support in the Tennessee Valley.
"He's our last hope," a Rhea County caller said Tuesday morning. "If anybody can turn it around, he's going to do it."
Trump's supporters feel like they spent the last eight years living in a country they didn't know. Truths that lasted for millennia were called bogus. People who woke up and only wanted to do the right thing were suddenly the bad guys. The faithful were no longer entitled to their religious liberty. The country was being governed against the majority.
So they cast their ballot for a non-Washington guy, a face they knew from television, a guy they would admit could act non-presidential on the campaign trail but one they still trusted.
They saw the news media twist Trump's words. Yes, he may have said something in an inelegant manner, but they knew what he meant. Why didn't the media get it?
"Sometimes when I say things," the woman from Rhea County said, "I don't mean it."
Why should Trump be held to a different standard, they wonder.
The president may have the same kind of support in all parts of Trump Nation. If so, he should be grateful.
But we fear there is, beyond the Forever Trumpers, beyond those who would have been happy as long as the president's name were Trump, Rubio, Kasich, Bush, Christie or Paul, a growing unease among those who voted for him because he was the better of two bad choices.
We knew what we'd get if we voted for her. So what we would get from him couldn't be worse.
Could it?
Today, Trump supporters and those who aren't so enamored of him but want many of his policies to succeed know they have to take every negative headline, every negative broadcast, every negative social-media posting with a grain of salt. They know much of it is intentionally written to ruin Trump. They know it will last four years with no letup, regardless of any progress that is made.
But we feel they must wonder if any of the allegations have merit. We don't sense - and nothing has been proven - that any Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election could have changed the outcome.
What, in general, though, has been said behind closed doors by Trump or by members of his team to officials of Russia - a country, regardless of how you feel about the previous administration's feckless foreign policy - still was a bad actor over the last eight years. Russia, after all, stole Crimea from the Ukraine, continues to meddle in Ukrainian business and has supported the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria. And they were the bad guys in the Cold War, for heaven's sake.
And now come reports that Trump has passed to the Russians classified information about an Islamic State terrorist threat, allegations his national security adviser - who was in the room - has (sort of) denied.
It's not as though Trump, as president, is not allowed to discuss classified information with other people. He is. But should he - with the Russians? And what does it reveal to them about how the U.S. sourced the information and about which possible third party passed the information to us?
Supporters of the president may believe this is all much ado about nothing, and whom we discuss high level information with is the type of decision we should leave to the chief executive anyway.
They may be right.
"The national news?" the Rhea County caller said. "We don't watch it."
But what if they're not right? Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who met with Trump about being his vice presidential running mate and about being secretary of state, believes there needs to be a little less conversation.
"Obviously, they're in a downward spiral right now and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening," he said of the administration. "You know, the shame of it is there's a really good national security team in place, and there are good productive things that are under way through them and through others, but the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline is creating an environment - it creates a worrisome environment."
The administration is not even 4 months old yet. Trump's loyalists have seen a sharp Supreme Court pick confirmed, the economy strengthening and last-minute Obama regulations rolled back, among other things. They like what's going on.
Still there's that "out there" out there - that tiny rivulet of worry some supporters may feel when the president and vice president aren't on the same page, when there seems to be more tweets than presidential actions, when the FBI director is fired, when even people on your side act worried.
Nevertheless, the woman from Rhea County and loyalists like her aren't about to give up on their man.
"I pray for President Trump," she said. "I pray for our country, his family and his Cabinet."
We hope their trust and their petitions are well-placed.