Jonathan Turley

It was pain that gave him the words that he needed.

It was Washington that was the symbol.

People didn't rally around pain.

In fact, common sense was anonymous.

And actually, one of his, originally, and one of his greatest critics, John Adams, who I think was a bit jealous of Paine's influence,

admitted that when his wife wrote him and said, people say you wrote Common Sense.

And at this time, Paine was not really that well known.

And John Adams said, I could never have written that.

I think I know who wrote it.

It's a guy by the name of Thomas Paine.

And he wrote to a friend and said, I met him.

And this is a quote.

And he had genius in his eyes.

And that's the same thing that Franklin saw, and I think the same thing that Washington saw.

So Washington and Madison together helped temper this republic and to create the things that limit the passions of democracy, force compromise.

That's what people today resist the most, right?

They want to just pack the Supreme Court.

with a liberal majority.

They wanted to reduce the influence of the Senate, to try to force compromise.

All of those things were the rallying cries of the French Revolution.