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Treachery is the right word for such oath-breaking. The president further threatened, in his speech that same day, to use the United States military as an instrument against the states and citizen protest. This is, as Jefferson wrote, "every act which may define a Tyrant." 6/11
There has been no apology, no walk-back. This is a tea-in-the-harbor sort of moment. Fortunately we still have elections; we may yet save the tea. I study a Republic that fell. We have a chance to stop our own republic falling; we may not get another. Do not let it slip by.7/11
If it seems that this comes later than it should (and it does), it is because I wanted to be sure of the facts. I have a historian's caution by nature. But the facts are quite clear, notwithstanding wrangling over if it really was tear gas (it was: https://apnews.com/2aa7979e6fb88948895407f127e5e5b6?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&fbclid=IwAR14tFR_GIKg6SW_wtNz6XleeK8ds4DzHqt46x2rVFg35nqJtDovAfAJSms …) 8/11
Like I said, I try not to get too much into politics here. But, if I may indulge in more Treebeard-quoting, "I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop." Now is the time to think of action "for it is easier to shout stop! than to do it." (TT, 90-1) 9/11
For the non-Americans who are tired of hearing me moan over our republic, I am sorry; I am an American first and a historian second. You may, I hope, content yourselves that, as Lucretius says, "It is pleasant, when the winds trouble the waters on the sea... 10/11
...to gaze from the shore upon the troubles of another." (DRN, 3.1-3). For the Americans - this is the moment given to us. It is not the one we would have chosen. But I think we know what it demands from us. 11/11
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