"Again, it was liberalism, not communism, that conceived the greatest hatred and loathing of Joe McCarthy. McCarthy, with his usual obtuseness regarding other people's motives, never understood this." -Arthur Herman

There is a thinking problem found on both left and right: It is to assume that because a bad thing happened, the opposition WANTED it to happen.

E.g. Bush wanted 9/11. Obama wanted Ferguson rioting. Trump wanted Jan 6 rioting. Biden wants hyper-inflation.

"Nonfamous people know that sometimes the press distorts what famous people say. But they generally don't know how common it is." -Scott Adams