The first is true, the second not. They are not nuts, only without a moral compass. It is a hard thing for people who have principles to understand, just how far the Left has embraced the idea that the end justifies the means. Whether you are looking at the Jacobins in the 1790s, Marx, the Fabians, Bolsheviks or Nazis, or modern American faux "Liberals," you are dealing with beings to whom the Big Lie, or any other form of conscious deception, is always fair game, if they think that they can get away with it.
While the American Left, unlike the Jacobins, Marxists, etc., may pretend to religious toleration--even to having Faith themselves--be always skeptical. The behavior through the years paints a very, very different picture. Many of them actually despise people of Faith; fear, hate & sometimes even envy them, because such folk have consciences, something utterly alien to the compulsion driven Egalitarian/Collectivists, who rally like robots to monolithic Socialist movements..
William Flax [Romney/Ryan--Tomorrow, we dare not fail!]
Ohioan, in concert with your advice, I am skeptical.