Conservatives often ascribe evil motives to progressive leaders, but it’s not the ultimate evil of Sauron that drives them; it’s the lesser evil of Saruman, and it deserves Theoden’s answer:
[W]ere you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired.
(That from The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien, in case you’re a fool of a Took.)