Jonathan Turley

They were all killed in the end.

And so it's why I quoted at the beginning of the book one of the few Frenchmen to survive from the revolution.

And he observed that revolutions like Saturn devour their children.

And Paine himself made reference to that expression.

And it has proven itself over and over again that revolution unleashes not just the best, but the worst of us.

And if you don't have a system that can take those pressures, it consumes you with the rest of the world around you.

Now, that's going to be very important because the book goes into what we're looking at in the 21st century, which is unprecedented, right?

With AI and robotics, we are looking at massive unemployment numbers.

Even the most conservative estimates are looking at a huge population of citizens that may have to be subsidized by the government.

And the book, there's a lot of research on that.

What's different about Raging in the Republic is I look at

What does that mean about being a citizen?

What does that mean if a large part of our population is supported entirely by the government?

How does that change your relationship to the government?

How do we make this republic work if we are essentially a kept citizenry?

And I explore that and suggest ways that we can avoid it.

But the only way we will survive this is if we return to the principles that created us, including what I call a liberty enhancing economy, which is capitalism.

People forget.

that Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith came out the same year as the Declaration of Independence.

And it did not go over well back in Great Britain.