What if the story you’ve been told about the American Revolution is backwards?

Dan McCarthy argues that the Founding was not a revolt against law, authority, or order. It was a conservative revolution, aimed at defending inherited rights, lawful government, and constitutional liberty.

In today’s protests against immigration enforcement and law enforcement in places like Minneapolis, the Left often claims the mantle of 1776. But the Founders, especially George Washington and John Adams, feared mob rule, condemned extra legal “democratic societies,” and even used federal force to suppress lawless rebellion.

This episode revisits what the American Revolution actually meant and why the Founders would likely side with enforcing the law, not undermining it.