People who have positions to which the facts are unkind tend to attack those who argue based upon them.
Funny how easy it is to ignore subjects that one finds distasteful or a waste of time. There are literally hundreds of threads here I ignore each day.
I’m still waiting for those who cautioned that we need to ignore the alarmism and Obama’s past malfeasance to “concentrate on the real issues” to step forward and identify those issues we missed.
You are correct in that the above is merely speculation and has no basis in fact.
On the other hand it seems to me that only those unwilling to defend freedom by any means would have their panties in a bunch over such hyperbole.