His counterpart is John McCain on the other side.”
I have met John McCain and observed him closely at public meetings. He is not stupid. Sad to say, I think he is totally invested in the idea that the government must protect us “little people” from ourselves.
It is a hard sell to say this directly, so they have to lie to accomplish it. That is what makes them seem so stupid. The lie is the heart of Regressive politics. Even the term “Progressive” is a lie. Their polices are regressive. They would move us back to a time before the rule of law, back to the rule by individual men, at their whim.