It's interesting just how scared of opposition these totalitarian-types are...
Years go, I wrote an academic article in a criminal justice journal which was NOT widely read. In it, I criticized Justice Scalia and others of his ilk. Probably under a thousand people read it.
Justice Scalia then wrote an article in which he discussed people who exemplified (his word) 'all that was wrong with America'. I was delighted to find I was on that list. It made my year!