I yield my time to Mehdi Hasan:
Take notes. They will come in handy. Especially this Lincoln quote from his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861. It was not a sunny speech. Lincoln spoke to perilous times for the Union. Seven Southern states had already approved articles of secession:
Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
The context of Lincoln’s speech is important.
Remember Jan. 6th.