Honestly, one thing that the elite-focused accounts of the American Revolution and its aftermath obscure is the extent to which ordinary people were *pissed off* and took matters into their own hands.
there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now.
we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
