The Thread of Liberty: Keeping Our Republic ^68.8%

RealClearPolitics - By Ned Ryun - 7/4/2026, 5:00 AM

Negativity Bias 29.4% - Indoctrination 25.9% - Hasty Generalization 23.5%

Benjamin Franklin walked out of the Constitutional Convention in September 1787 and was asked what kind of government the delegates had given the country. “A republic,” he said, “if you can keep it.” Two hundred fifty years after the Declaration that made such a government thinkable, that conditional clause is one of the most important... more