I was surprised to read one of Turley's recent columns --
........Adams displayed the most shocking collapse in faith after he became president. The man who praised the “Dignity, Majesty, [and] Sublimity” of the Boston Tea Party, immediately turned on his political opponents with a crackdown under the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts. Even members of Congress were not immune from the arrests as he met citizen rage with state rage.
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Jefferson would ultimately pardon those convicted under Adams. Yet, he would also yield to that “monster” in using the criminal system to target his own critics, though to a lesser extent as his predecessor.
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......If they want history to repeat itself in November, they should make free speech a central issue in their campaigns. Joe Biden is undeniably the most anti-free speech president since Adams in his support for an unprecedented censorship system that a federal court called “Orwellian.”
......... Jefferson referred to Adams and his Federalist administration as “the reign of the witches.” Federalists denounced Jeffersonians as “Jacobins” and “traitors.”
Today President Biden and his allies are declaring that democracy will end if Trump is elected and that he will, according to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, “throw away” democracy. On ABC’s “The View,” host Whoopi Goldberg warned journalists and “gay folk” that Trump is planning to round them up and “disappear you.” Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., warned that, if Trump wins, this “may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast.”
Back then, the rhetoric was equally overwrought. Media was also openly biased and Federalist newspapers declared that “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.”
Conversely, a Jeffersonian writer warned that, if the Federalists were elected, “chains, dungeons, transportation, and perhaps the gibbet” awaited citizens. Others predicted that under Adams they “would instantaneously be put to death.”
Sound familiar?
I'm not old enough to remember Adams and Jefferson, but I do remember that Reagan was going to bring on WW3 - known as "Ray-Gun" - and the slogan on campus was "how many children have you killed today"? I remember how Bush was going to usher in a theocracy and compel children to pray in schools. And I don't have words for all of the Handmaid's Tale crap that Trump was going to do.
Next time someone says that phrase - uttered so often, it's not only a mantra to the left but has taken on a life of its own as some kind of basic, axiomatic truth of the universe - "existential threat to Democracy" - I'd like to ask, what is the worst thing he intends to do? Oh, outlaw abortion across the nation? He's said repeatedly, he is against that. So - what is he going to do? Repeal the First Amendment?
Geez, have you NO FAITH in this country? We created this nation so that no one can pull this kind of crap EVEN IF THEY WANTED TO.
(Note: Gutfeld mentioned tonight that Biden wished for Trump's recovery and wished him well - huh? Isn't he the biggest threat to Democracy? Who wishes HITLER would get better?)