Maybe he’s a time traveler, and knew how that would turn out?
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle (The New Yorker, October 10, 1988, p.102)
To be clear, it was Soon-Shiong who demanded that the editorial board should Bothsides it, as is the inclination of the owners of most major corporate news outlets.
Rachel Maddow’s recent book Prequel gives a good picture of just how widespread the American support for fascism was in the '30s and early '40s, going right up to a number of sitting US senators, and complete with foreign interference and disinformation.
Dan Quayle does have Booster Gold energy. Maybe he was/is/will be a time traveler who went back and jimmied history just enough to land the vice presidency.