“Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.”

—  Ilana Mercer

"Coddling Killers," http://spectator.org/archives/2004/12/29/coddling-killers The American Spectator, December 29, 2004.
2000s

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