It recurs to me as I read my daughter's great gift on the Civil War that as America was born of violent, revolutionary struggle; as we made "a more perfect union" in the forge of violent revolutionary struggle not 90 years later; as Black equality before the law was only won 100 years after that in both peaceful and sometimes violent protests, that we are a violent, revolutionary people lol and that the Heller gun case of 2008, the Catastrophe of 11/8/16, the reactionary coup d'etat of 1/6/20, the Dobbs abortion case of 2022 and the plausibility of the fascist reclaiming the presidency in 2024 are the latest moments in America's continuing violent, revolutionary struggle.