Jonathan Turley

I mean, that's what Benjamin Franklin was talking about when he said, it's your republic if you can keep it.

Every generation can lose this gift that we have gotten.

And what worries me is how the establishment have become the new Jacobins.

Remember, the Jacobins of the French Revolution were establishment figures.

They were journalists, lawyers, aristocrats, much like people today.

You've got Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley, saying the Constitution basically has to be trashed.

He's just one of a number of people that have said the Constitution is now the problem that we have to get rid of.

Those are the familiar voices.

No, you're right.

And that is the thing about rage, is that it gives you a license to do and say things you wouldn't otherwise do.

It's addictive and it's contagious.

But what people won't admit is that they like it.

When you look at the streets of Minneapolis and other cities, those people like it.

And it spreads.

That's what happens in these these revolutions where people are saying, let's get rid of these precautions.

Let's have direct democratic rule.

That's what we're really talking about here.

The irony, as I point out in my book.

is that the raging republic really shows over and over again that today's revolutionaries become tomorrow's reactionaries.

All of the so-called mountain, as they were called in the French Revolution, Robespierre, Marat, all of them, they were all guillotined.