The tables in the temple were overturned, but I suspect worse things going on near the temple were forgotten. There was no destruction of the slave suction blocks, or running out the child prostitution peddlers, or thrashing the other true sinners here.

No, just the rich people having a local service temporarily disrupted.

I find this very typical of modern politics. Also, I find comfort this was only one version, a sanitized one at that, which was promoted by wealthy Romans generations later .

This is the version according to John where he has a wipe

it isn’t, so jesus is also an idiot (sorry but this is true…)