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Indeed. And this is central to our country’s founding. Colonial congresses spent years pushing for the Intolerable Acts’ repeal and reforms to virtual representation. That’s Jeffersonian revolutionary theory. Upon the clear and ineluctable conclusion that the rule of law has failed, extralegal 1/
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The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option