for conspiring to overturn the election of 2020 represent the American Founders’ nightmare. A key concern ofwas that demagogues would incite mobs and factions to defy the rule of law, overturn free and fair elections and undermine American democracy.
“The only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in 1790. “When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper…is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity,” Hamilton warned, “he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.
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