People who are protesting and complaining that President Trump is behaving like a dictator apparently skipped history classes or took them at liberal universities where professors have re-written the subject to conform to their worldview.
Someone who is doing what history teachers used to do may surprise you. He is Mark Levin, who hosts a daily syndicated radio program and weekend programs on Fox News Channel. Watch and listen if you are skeptical.
Last weekend, Levin reminded his audience that some who are regarded as some of our best presidents did things far worse than what Trump is accused of doing.
Levin reminded us that John Adams, one of America’s Founding Fathers, imprisoned several citizens under the Sedition Act, including four journalists. The Insurrection Act was used by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant (Grant put down the Ku Klux Klan in the South). These and other presidents used the military to achieve political and social objectives.
Abraham Lincoln “shut down pro-peace newspapers, or papers thought to be sympathetic to the Confederacy during the Civil War. He suspended habeas corpus. Only Congress can do that.” Lincoln also “confiscated printing materials and sometimes imprisoned reporters, editors and publishers.”