Daily Take: The American Revolution Started Over This Kind of Abuse: Have We Forgotten?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
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The American Revolution Started Over This Kind of Abuse: Have We Forgotten?
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| 2:05.5 | This fight isn't really about immigration. It's about whether the Constitution still restrains |
| 2:11.0 | government power at all. When elected officials call it a non-starter to require federal agents to get a judicial warrant |
| 2:19.1 | before kicking indoors, to give people bail or a trial before they face long-term prison, |
| 2:25.0 | and to allow protests, they're not debating border policy. They're testing whether the Bill of Rights |
| 2:30.7 | is still binding or has become merely decorative. |
| 2:40.1 | The Bill of Rights was written to put friction between the state's power to use force and the people it governs to restrain government. If that friction can be removed so government can attack any one disfavored group, |
| 2:49.6 | then constitutional rights stop being universal guarantees and |
| 2:53.3 | turn into conditional privileges. And once that shift happens, history, and Pastor Martin |
| 2:58.9 | Neumuller's famous poem, show that the groups of people who are unprotected never stays small |
| 3:05.6 | for long. This week's news, which highlights this crisis, is that |
| 3:10.3 | Republicans have shut down the Department of Homeland Security because they say Democrats call |
| 3:14.6 | for ICE to follow the law in the Constitution is, quote, a non-starter. Seriously, here's the first |
| 3:21.6 | sentence of the Democrats' demand that Republicans say is so unreasonable. |
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