They aren’t interested in intellectual honesty unless it furthers their agenda. Their desire to disarm their political opposition, however, belies critical thinking IMO. They know it will be necessary for us to be disarmed... eventually. They are angry, spiteful, envious, souless, gutless, morally bankrupt, scheming, lying, cheating, manipulating, etc...but they aren’t stupid.
All of that. However, something stopped developing in their minds. A normal person fully developed cannot think that way.