Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
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The Perversity of the Declaration of Independence
John Avlon: Merrick Garland had a very important role at the beginning especially. There is this central idea in the Declaration, I'll quote from it, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, basically the consent of the government. Those words do not justify attacking the Capitol on January 6, but they are malleable words that impressionable already motivated people can use to their own ends. He says he didn't realize until he started working on this book how weirdly parallel his career has been to John Roberts.Avlon: You described them something like as the two legal, legal, eagles of their generation basis. They're both went to Harvard College, maj
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