A draft dodging goon and a pickled FOXNews bobblehead summoned the nation’s top military leaders to Quantico, Va., to deliver an edict: the armed forces serve MAGA, and America’s liberal citizens are the military’s principal enemy. Lord, give me hope.

Upon encountering the Federalist Papers — the compilation of essays in defense of what would later be ratified as the US Constitution — I was struck by two things: the founders were very much obsessed with the threat of tyranny on the one hand, and the danger posed by mob rule on the other.

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