Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Alex Jones, and Rudy Giuliani are in deep trouble with the US state.
Possibly you believe you aren't really attacking the state with your social media posts, just the corrupt regime currently in power.
They think the state is necessary but needs to be slashed, not done away with-much like what the heroic Javier Milei is doing in Argentina.
These people are explicit defenders of the state per se and therefore cannot be considered enemies of the state.
Rights of Man: Part the First, published in 1791, written as a defense of the early French Revolution and as an answer to MP Edmund Burke's attack on it, expressed Paine's undying contempt for government: "Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. In England the punishment in certain cases is by hanging, drawing and quartering; the heart of the sufferer is cut out and held up to the view of the populace."
As I wrote in an earlier essay, "The man who inspired the country to secede from a corrupt state had six people in attendance at his funeral [in 1809], none of whom were dignitaries."
Each of us should inventory our degree of bravery for the times ahead. Tank Man, Paine, and the White Rose risked their lives opposing a corrupt state.
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