History can tell you lots of things. But what it can't, or has never told me at least, is what it FELT like. I try to imagine the mood in the aftermath of the Revolution, when anything was possible, or in the runup to the Civil War, when nothing was. I strongly suspect the latter more closely resembles the present mood.

I met JD Vance and three things stuck out to me.

Like all hysterics, Rob Reiner is deluded in a second way; He does not know he is one, forgetting his own REPETITIVE history.

“Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.” -Walter Williams