Leffingwell, a military veteran who once defended the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, willfully betrayed his nation and became an enemy of the United States on January 6.

You all don't quite understand what this statement actually means. with this sentence, the government is calling him a traitor and asking for his execution.

otherwise terrorizing a temple of American democracy.

No government is sacrosanct.

I could mention the historical and civic illiteracy of equating a state, and a very corrupt one at that, with "the nation", which is obviously preposterous. The nation refers to the people, which is rather separate from the government that claims dominion over that people.

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It's not a mistake. If the state is the nation and the nation is the state, it's Fascism. It's not the first time this regime has explicitly argued for Fascism.

Leffingwell, a military veteran who once defended the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, willfully betrayed his nation and became an enemy of the United States on January 6.

You all don't quite understand what this statement actually means. with this sentence, the government is calling him a traitor and asking for his execution.

otherwise terrorizing a temple of American democracy.

No government is sacrosanct.

I could mention the historical and civic illiteracy of equating a state, and a very corrupt one at that, with "the nation", which is obviously preposterous. The nation refers to the people, which is rather separate from the government that claims dominion over that people.

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