'While Evils Are Sufferable': The Trump Verdict, the 2024 Election and Lessons Learned in 1775-76
For Americans who grew up during an era of relative serenity, some historical questions produced only speculative answers. In other words, our personal experience could not explain why people who lived in strife-filled times behaved as they did. We had theories, of course, based on surviving evidence and an understanding of human nature. But we never felt much strife ourselves and, therefore, seldom thought very seriously about the application of those theories.
For instance, in the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson described human beings as “more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” That raises a historical question that only those who have lived through strife-filled times can answer from experience. Namely, when and why did Jefferson and his fellow revolutionaries decide that they could no longer suffer those evils?
Following his conviction last Thursday in a Soviet-style hush-money trial in New York City, former President Donald Trump’s campaign referred to him as a “political prisoner” of President Joe Biden’s despotic regime and raised record-setting donations as a result. When asked about that claim the following day, Biden grinned an evil grin, as seen in the video below.
I couldn’t believe the video of Biden smirking was real…
I thought perhaps someone overlaid satire / fake audio with the question.
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