It's hardly "absurd nonsense." You should read Tocqueville's Democracy in America to get a sense of what political life in the USA was like before the government created by Jefferson, Madison, et al., was destroyed.
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You can say MNJohnnie is not absurdly nonsensical all you want, but that won’t change anyth . . . oh, . . . never mind.
Ironic that this writer is actually decrying the loss of freedom to dissolve an oppressive government as Jefferson etal intended. This option was forfeited to the might of the Federals in 1865.