Exactly! This is why they hated Reagan so much. Deep down, they knew he was right and they were wrong, but he was a gentleman about it. The same thing is repeated with Bush. They want to hate him so much, but deep down, they know he is right. This makes them hate him even more. But it all boils down to the fact that they really hate themselves because they really know they're wrong, but have decades of justification that to even admit they're wrong cause their whole house of cards ideology to come tumbling down.
LOL, that's why it's so hard to write examples. There are just too many of them.