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Is America still capable of a peaceful transfer of power? That question was answered on Jan 6, 2021

Trump did not attend the swearing in and only reluctantly left the White House after taking everything but the desk with him.

The only way Trump will leave this time is feet first on a gurney, and JD Vance will step up.

Another great piece Steward. I look forward to more.

A tidbit about Jefferson, he really did sour on democracy. He traveled to Pittsylvania County, VA and sat in on a business meeting in a Baptist church to get some experience as to how the"middlings" did it. By the way I found that term interesting, there was no such thing as a middle class, there were merchants, labors, free men, servants, and nobility or quasi nobility. When Marx wrote his tiresome screeds, there was no such thing as a middle class, so he used the word bourgeoisie for that purpose.

Back to Pittsylvania Co,. He watched the meeting devolve into shouting, arguments and near into fisticuffs and walked away disabused of democracy for the "middlings".

Democracy was fine for the cultured, property owning elite, and thus his Democratic Republican Party, was, as was the Constitution, written for propertied men, color not mentioned. In fact free black men did vote in the first two elections And it wasn't until 1807 that New Jersey passed a law that only white men could vote.

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