Friends and supporters—including Berkman—urged her to quit his cause. But Goldman defended Czolgosz as a "supersensitive being"[70] and chastised other anarchists for abandoning him.[70] She was vilified in the press as the "high priestess of anarchy",[71] while many newspapers declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder.[72] In the wake of these events, socialism gained support over anarchism among US radicals. McKinley's successor, Theodore Roosevelt, declared his intent to crack down "not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists".[73]