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Only the distinctly American path of ordered liberty offers the prospect of healing old wounds and renewing our democratic institutions. Our republic, this bold experiment in self-government, is still ours to keep, but only through our own untiring efforts will it remain “the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”
Before the outrageous assault on the U.S. Capitol, before the rancor of the 2020 presidential election, before the mob violence that engulfed cities across our nation last year long before all this, Americans had been engaged in a fierce struggle over the history, meaning, and future of the United States. The American Founders, it is worth recalling, faced an even more fearsome challenge: to bring together different views and competing factions to build a unified, federal, and democratic republic. The possible consequences of failure focused many minds in Philadelphia in 1787.
Mar 1, 2021
In the name of never letting a crisis go to waste, the Democrats used the excuse of the Jan. 6 Capitol event to ring Washington with barbed wire and military personnel during the inauguration. And as soon as that unjustified action could no longer be excused, the further excuse of the Fake Impeachment Trial Take 2 was invoked to continue the claim of Washington under siege. It’s true that Washington is under siege. But whereas a siege normally takes place from outside the wire, in this case it’s taking place inside the wire.
Of course, the besieged appearance of Washington can be apologetically attributed to contemporary events to COVID or to the planned assault on Congress which therefore couldn’t be incited by a peaceful speech. But neither event merits a military lock down of the Capitol, which is now a fact. And so what matters now is the mindset of what these militarized moves mean. Trump calls for a peaceful march. And the Democrats call him an insurrectio