They offer arguments in place of facts, and that is never a good way to get at the truth. Their websites are full of undocumented statements and incendiary retellings of history that are not founded in fact. One of the leaders of the movement has published on his website the fact that he believes that the British Royal Family are giant lizards from another planet who are shape- shifted into human form. Critics have reason to contend that the Bush administration has not been the best of presidencies. But that has been true of every single American presidency since George Washington first took office.
Liberals point to the Roosevelt administration as the best of presidencies.
But the Roosevelt administration was filled with communist fellow-travelers, and its policies toward the Soviet Union, especially toward the end of World War II, created the geopolitical foundation from which the USSR fought the cold war for seventy long and dangerous years. Franklin Roosevelt gave up the freedom of a billion human beings at Yalta, when he and Stalin and an appalled Winston Churchill divided the world into spheres of influence. The man who had rescued us from the Depression and won World War II left us with a legacy of suffering and terror that was to last for seventy years. Likewise, conservatives point to the Reagan administration as the paragon. But what it did in Central America was appalling.