Posted at Hartmann Report on May. 7, 2025
The Republic or the Tyrants? The Choice Jefferson Faced in 1776 Is Now Ours in 2025
Will we defend the dream of self-rule, or surrender to the very powers our ancestors bled to escape?
The American Revolution wasn't just a break from Britain — it was an uprising against three ancient tyrannies: warlord kings, the morbidly rich, and theocrats. Today, those same forces are clawing their way back into power, and if we don't fight them now, everything the Founders built could collapse.
In the Declaration of Independence and throughout his years of personal correspondence, Thomas Jefferson (and multiple others among the Founders) identified three historic tyrannies that he and his colleagues fought the Revolutionary War to overthrow and replace with a democratic republic.
The first were the warlord kings, who'd been conquering nations and peoples for millennia and, by 1776, were considered "normal" by most citizens of the world. These were families who, in the earlier years of their countries, had acquired power by conquest: war, pillage, rape, and the subjugation of the people they'd vanquished.