“When ruffians, brutes and bosses rise to power they do not bring the blessings of liberty. They speak with course language and react without deeper thought and guiding philosophical principles. They are able to rouse a crowd they are unable to bring the blessing of liberty that spans generations.”
You need to read more about what happened in Boston in 1775. The colonists were a rough bunch.
And yet the founders and framers rose above the depravity to lead a nation into something much greater than the common man envisioned.