Ted Kaczynski was a crackpot at heart and likely an MKULTRA victim who hurt innocent people in order to promote his rambling manifesto about an unrealistic vision for returning to monke or whatever.
McVeigh decided to kill nearly 700 people because of Waco (David Koresh was a pedophile cult leader and had it coming) and Ruby Ridge (another loonie cult that had it coming) because of a shitty pulp fiction novel about muh Rahowa.
Both were cringe and lacking in based