THREAD: For @realDonaldTrump's insurrection, re-upping my October @DemJournal essay titled "Encouraging Domestic Terrorism": "In the last Federalist Paper #85, Alexander Hamilton urged Americans to “put them upon their guard against hazarding anarchy... 1/ https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/specialissue/encouraging-domestic-terrorism/

and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue.” As Charlottesville makes clear, this despotism can come in many forms. We must now take firm steps to reinforce the unthinkable: the legitimacy of America’s very state. 2/

We need to crush paramilitary groups, crack down on political violence across the ideological spectrum, reinforce America’s apolitical, civilian-run military (and reeducate all Americans about its Constitutional purpose), 3/

as well as restore the deliberative center without which American democracy cannot succeed in its core mission of enabling conflicting factions to function in a common enterprise.

History illuminates the alternative." 4/4