Trump is taking us back to the 19th century and trying to take us back to before the civil war. When the supreme court gave him immunity that took us back to the 18th century when the wealthy colonists roused the population into revolting against the king who was taxing them. White protestant men with property were the only people allowed to hold office in most states during this time. South Carolina’s state constitution in 1778 has such high property requirements that 90% of white adults couldn’t hold office. Until 1913 senators were chosen by these bodies.
The first big lie in America was about the tyranny of the majority, “Without checks on majority rule the masses will inevitably trample the rights of the minority. They’ll redistribute property, they’ll persecute unpopular groups and destroy individual liberty. They can be taken hold of by a demagogue.” This was the excuse used by….white protestant men with property…to make a democracy only slightly valid. But even this small amount of power given to the masses slowly changed America.
“Preventing mob rule is good except notice what they are actually protecting; property, political power, the existing establishment order.” The rich wanted a very limited democracy that gave them power (to acquire more wealth); “The most common and durable source of factions had been the various and unequal distribution of property.” The founders were more concerned with their pursuit of wealth than with democracy; “Protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate- is- the first object of government” (Madison).
Follow the money.