It's no mystery why Paine came to be shunned by the founders. He was a radical, anti-Christian kook, kind of like Jamie Raskin.
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No ads, no remuneration. Die Gedanken sind wirklich frei. The tyrant "has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles."
It's no mystery why Paine came to be shunned by the founders. He was a radical, anti-Christian kook, kind of like Jamie Raskin.
Story here.
To Raskin we owe the origins of the National Popular Vote Compact, a progressive end-run around the constitution's electoral college system, among other far-left enthusiasms.
Only the fevered mind of a lunatic like this could turn a riot by a bunch of yahoos into an attempted coup.