Answer:
those who support as cause only so long as the "sun is shining" and their are no troubles
those who will desert their cause when the fight for it gets harder
Step-by-step explanation:
Thomas Paine used the phrase “sunshine patriot” in his essay The American Crisis. It is part of the opening lines that states “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country”.
This means there are certain people who seem to love their country only when it is good and when all is well. They support the country, they proclaim to be the patriots and tell good things about it when they get something out of it, and when all is good. Yet, when there are a problem and a crisis, they do nothing. They do not help or do the service that the country needs. Sunshine and summer are used as metaphors for good times, for those who claim they are in service when it is good, but actually are not so bold to do anything when it really matters. They are opportunistic people and not true patriots, by Paine's ideas.