[ via RRE ] Doesn’t anyone remember the Alien and Sedition Acts?
McCullough and Kennedy fail to realize that there was a reason for earlier generations of leaders not turning the Adamses into monuments of democracy: earlier generations of leaders actually understood the Adamses.
To be fair, the Congress voted that stinker into law. However, when W runs around flashing his copies of Adams’ biography, and Bias, there’s a pattern to be found.