I’d like to say that these last weeks have been like nothing we’ve ever seen before in America. But that’s not true. There have been numerous internally-driven insurrections against the American government. There was Shay’s Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion, Fries’ Rebellion, and even the formation of the State of Muskogee — and all of these were just in the first 25 years of the Republic. And, of course, there was the American Civil War.