1)Yup. Could have used a better term. Of course there is a reason to take the Declaration and Constitution seriously. I do, despite the Constitution’s flaws. https://twitter.com/fryolator1/status/1343175999933083648

2) My main point was that it strikes me as odd that the foundational documents of the Confederacy are too often ignored in a country whose foundational documents are invoked ubiquitously, for good and ill.

3) A bit of pushback on the Constitution as item of fetish. To the extent that people don’t see it as a working document that can and should be changed as needed, they are making a fetish of it. I’m not the first to say that many Americans treat it more like a sacred text.

4) That was a concern that TJ voiced about generations living under the constitutions of previous generations.