“I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.”— Dana Loesch

Sadly, these ideas aren’t uncommon.

• If you distrust democracy, try autocracy.
• If you fear inflation, vote out incumbents.
• If you dislike facts, make up some you like better.
• We can put the genie back in the bottle.
• There is a simple answer to complex questions.
• We can rely on common sense.
• A candidate’s political party is all I need to know.
• If we can’t solve a little problem, we should try to make it bigger.
• Everything was better in 1950.
• Professional politicians make good legislators.
• Being elected to Congress makes one an expert on many subjects.

There are many more repeated everyday.