Another brilliant letter from Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-29-2022

January 29, 2022
Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American

I’ve thought a lot lately about Representative Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) tweet on January 6, 2021, saying, “Today is 1776.”

The insurrectionists’ cries of 1776 remind me not of the Founding era, but of 1860. In that time, too, people believed they were creating a new country and recorded their participation. In that time, too, the rebels wanted a country with a weak federal government, so they could be sure people like them would rule forever.