Republicans are in chaos now. It’s a shell game, where the outsiders are wannabe insiders who would automatically morph into — you guessed it — previously hated insiders once in office.
Their fear and distrust of a strong central government goes way back. After a miraculous win against Britain’s King George, the colonists were quite willing to walk away from victory and try to survive under a weak-willed Articles of Confederation. But it doesn’t work that way. You need a oneness to be a nation.
Read about how it happened with Joseph J. Ellis’ exciting and revealing Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Quarter,” out this year. It’s about four good men — Washington, Hamilton, Jay and Madison — in spite of any political diversity, recognized the need for a strong, unified national government and acted accordingly.
With the birth of our wonderful Constitution, these four and others engineered a second American Revolution. Consider this: let’s say the Republican so-called outsiders, now leading the pack, gain control of the government. Given their almost paranoid hatred of the D.C. federal government, their reign would look like a virtual third failed Confederacy.
Founding Fathers, where are you?
Jerry Gregory
IU Alumnus
