What he meant was, good luck living with your consciences after you vote to acquit this guy. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this saving consolation: the more difficult the struggle, the more glorious in the end will be our victory. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will shrink at this moment from the service of their cause and their country, but everyone who stands with us now will win the love and favor and affection of every man and every woman for all time. And Paine wrote this pamphlet called "The Crisis," and he said these beautiful words…He said, "These are the times that men and women’s souls. Could political self-government work in America, was the question. Were we going to win, against all hope? Because for most of the rest of human history, it had been the kings and queens and tyrants and nobles lording it over the common people. In 1776, in the crisis, he wrote these beautiful words, it was a very tough time for the country, people didn't know which way things were going to go. Tom Paine wasn't an American, but he came to help us in our great revolutionary struggle against the kings, and queens, and the tyrants. And, in the end, Raskin hung one last anchor around all their necks. That’s not going away, and there’s no apparent appetite among Republicans to do away from it. After all, recent polling indicates that a majority of Republicans still believe that El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago was cheated out of his “very great landslide” victory. It also functioned as a warning that, conviction or no, the actual insurrection is as alive and contagious in the country as the pandemic is. Jamie Raskin wrapped up the impeachment managers' case for conviction of the former president* by citing that particular passage in reference to the former president*’s incitement of the insurrection of January 6. Any congressional session in 2021 that ends with someone quoting Tom Paine about why tyranny is like hell because it is not easily conquered is bound to grab my attention.
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