• SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see that he actually said that. At most, the article quotes him as asking if revolution is necessary:

    “So that’s the question,” he tells Klingenstein. “Have the abuses or the threat of abuses become so intolerable that we have to be willing to push back?”

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      1 year ago

      He also says

      Our Founders lay this case out. There’s actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable. At some point abuses become so intolerable that it becomes not only their right but their duty to alter or abolish the existing government.

      But he’s not just asking a philosophical question. He’s one of the people at the core of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and keep Trump in power.

      Here, he’s providing his ideological underpinnings that he believes gave him the right to alter or abolish the existing government.

      Sure, here he’s just asking the question if revolution is necessary - but he already answered it in deed when he tried to keep Trump in power against the expressed wish of the electorate.