Reminded of this rant from Foundation (the Mayor of Terminus yelling at the scientists who refused to acknowledge the present circumstances in favor of worshiping past research):

"But you haven’t tried. You haven’t tried once. First, you refused to admit that there was a menace at all! Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor! Now you’ve shifted it to Hari Seldon. Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past — never on yourselves.” His fists balled spasmodically. “It amounts to a diseased attitude — a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority. There seems no doubt ever in your minds that the Emperor is more powerful than you are, or Hari Seldon wiser. And that’s wrong, don’t you see?”

Just replace Hari Seldon with like Ben Franklin or Hamilton and the Emperor with Pelosi and you've got some grade a lib bashing material.