A follow-up to my most recent paywalled post, on a Times piece that mis-applied the thinking of Patrick Henry to the U.S. presidency’s dangerous potential for becoming a tyranny. I focused there on a failure to take founding-era politics seriously—in a major piece purporting to fill us in on the founders’ thinking!—and the concomitant misconstruals that have made leaning on national history so useless in confronting the grim national challenge posed by Trump and Trumpism.