“I bet our Founders would have been called militia extremists.”
Well, they organized and took up arms against the legally established government! They tarred, feathered, and sometimes hung loyalists. They committed acts of sabotage and vandalism.
They spread great exaggerations of the loyalist government’s actions to stay in power.
They conspired to keep other’s crimes a secret or at least unsolved.
They kept illegal weapons of war and ammunition for same.
They were terrorists, not just militia extremists.
God Bless Them!