*** Official Right wingers storm US Capitol Building Thread ***

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In the end, the American experiment was a wager that Abigail, rather than John Adams, was correct about the ability of citizens to govern themselves through reason rather than partisan passion. In his farewell address, warning that the “spirit of party” might undermine the republic, George Washington noted that “it agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/whole-point-was-avoid-mob-violence/618312/
 

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