Jonathan Turley

The framers didn't believe that.

They believed that the greatest threat to democracies was mobocracy, was one framework called democratic despotism.

That's why Madison created a constitution that protected against

Tyranny of the majority with checks and balances and shared powers.

Paine didn't sign on to all of that.

And when he went to France, he did not argue for those what were called precautionary measures.

And it damn near killed him.

He came within a very short period of being guillotined.

Yeah, that's exactly right, Glenn.

And there's a chapter in the book called The New Jacobins.

And it is a chapter that looks at this growing movement to strip away powers of the Supreme Court, pack the Supreme Court, dump the Constitution.

You have leading legal figures.

who are saying that the US Constitution has to go on the 250th anniversary of our independence.

This is the most successful and stable democracy in the history of the world.

And you've got law professors telling people the Constitution is our problem.

And what they are really restating is what we heard in the French Revolution, this belief that we just need to strip away those barriers to democratic action.

That historically has proven a disaster time and time again.

The irony that I point out in the book is that when you look at these past systems like the French Revolution, they tend to produce a single tyrant.

So at the end, what they do is they melt down and then the people embrace a tyrant like Napoleon.

And that's the greatest irony.