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“He asserts that the rioters on January 6, 2021, were authoritarians of the right. That is, they sought to overthrow the constitutional means by which we pass power peacefully from one president and party to the next.”

Sounds like someone channeling King George!

Publication of The American Crisis[edit]

First page of Paine's The American Crisis

But the morale of the Patriot forces was boosted on December 19 when a new pamphlet titled The American Crisis written by Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense, was published.^[12]

These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Within a day of its publication in Philadelphia, General Washington ordered it to be read to all of his troops. It encouraged the soldiers and improved the tolerance of their difficult conditions.^[13]

“Sounds like someone channeling King George!”

RIGHT???!!!

Thanks for that. Really. If you saw the project I’m working on, you’d understand. I doubt that I’ll have the wherewithal to put it in HTML (there are a LOT of images), but I will share it here at FR right soon.