{"id":2403717,"date":"2025-02-18T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peak-ignorance-watch-sharpton-argue-founding-fathers-never-tried-to-overthrow-the-government\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:50:43","slug":"peak-ignorance-watch-sharpton-argue-founding-fathers-never-tried-to-overthrow-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peak-ignorance-watch-sharpton-argue-founding-fathers-never-tried-to-overthrow-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Ignorance: Watch Sharpton Argue Founding Fathers Never &#8216;Tried to Overthrow the Government&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeak-ignorance-watch-sharpton-argue-founding-fathers-never-tried-to-overthrow-the-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2403717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u2064 discusses a remark made\u200c by Al Sharpton, a commentator \u200don MSNBC, about two of the Founding \u200dFathers, James Madison \u2063and Thomas Jefferson, suggesting\u200c that they might have\u200c attempted\u2064 to overthrow the government. this comment \u2064sparked ridicule on \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X \u2062(formerly Twitter),\u2064 where users highlighted the absurdity of comparing the actions of these historical figures, who fought \u2063for American independence, to \u200bthe \u200dJanuary 6 Capitol insurrection.\u200d <\/p>\n<p>The piece emphasizes that Sharpton&#8217;s assertion lacks historical \u200cgrounding,\u2064 as Madison and Jefferson were crucial players in the American Revolution, risking everything \u2063to \u2062oppose british rule.\u2062 The author notes\u200b that\u2063 Sharpton\u2064 intended \u2064to use this historical reference as \u200cpart of a broader narrative criticizing former President Donald \u2064Trump and the events\u200c of January 6. <\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 article further suggests that such distorted references to\u2063 the Founding Fathers \u2064are indicative of \u2064a broader trend among establishment figures \u200dwho manipulate history to further\u200c thier agendas.it \u200dcalls attention to the \u200cimportance of understanding the \u200doriginal\u2062 intent\u200d of the Constitution and the dangers \u200bof judicial overreach, referencing discussions around landmark supreme Court decisions like &#8220;Marbury \u200cv. Madison.&#8221; the\u200d article encourages a reevaluation of\u200b how historical narratives are \u2062presented \u2064in contemporary discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The social media platform X, one of the internet&rsquo;s few bastions of free speech, often presents us with timely reminders.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it has reminded us that establishment operatives who cite the Founding Fathers almost invariably do so in ways that strike sensible observers as either comically inept or purposefully disingenuous.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in recent days X users have recirculated an 18-month-old clip of MSNBC commentator and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/al-sharpton-threatens-mcdonalds-accuses-company-racism-says-comes-big-macs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professional race-baiter<\/a> Al Sharpton making a comment about two Pantheon-level Founding Fathers that sounded too ludicrous to attribute to anything besides a momentary lapse in Sharpton&rsquo;s cognitive function, for no truly skilled liar would have said something that silly on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One day our children&rsquo;s children will read American history,&rdquo; Sharpton said in a clip posted to X on Sunday, &ldquo;and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government, so they could stay in power? That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re looking at; we&rsquo;re looking at American history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Al Sharpton Asks: Can you imagine if James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?<\/p>\n<p>&#128580;&#128580;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Swr2Gn7qjM\">pic.twitter.com\/Swr2Gn7qjM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1891232205017641344?\">February 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Madison and Jefferson trying to overthrow a government? Perish the thought.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson, of course, wrote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/reinvestigating-woke-nprs-absurd-trigger-warning-declaration-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>. He also served as a wartime governor of Virginia for two years (1779-81) that coincided with a British invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Madison served on the Virginia Council of State then in the Continental Congress. Needless to say, the British government did not recognize the legitimacy of either.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, both revolutionaries stood to lose everything had the British succeeded in reestablishing their colonial authority.<\/p>\n<p>As we know, however, that did not happen. Madison and Jefferson, to Sharpton&rsquo;s horror, helped overthrow their government.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpton, of course, meant to use the Founding Fathers as rhetorical props in the establishment&rsquo;s never-ending melodrama about President Donald Trump and the Capitol incursion of Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As we noted at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-comparing-founding-fathers-gets-instant-history-lesson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharpton&rsquo;s gaffe<\/a> during an Aug. 2, 2023, appearance on MSNBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Morning Joe,&rdquo; where panelists discussed then-special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s indictment of Trump on charges pertaining to the Capitol incursion, drew well-deserved mockery from social media users.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent pro-Trump investigative journalist Laura Loomer, for instance, called it &ldquo;MUST WATCH STUPIDITY.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MUST WATCH STUPIDITY:<\/p>\n<p>Professional race baiter Al Sharpton asks MSNBC panel, &ldquo;Can you imagine if James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#129313;&#129313;&#129313;&#129313;&#129313;<\/p>\n<p>Oh<\/p>\n<p>My<\/p>\n<p>GOD <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u76OJpdHLx\">pic.twitter.com\/u76OJpdHLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1687211662921674754?\">August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/natl-black-church-group-scorches-al-sharpton-msnbc-moral-stain-paid-kamala-interview-left-black-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharpton<\/a> came under heavy criticism for accepting money from former Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; 2024 presidential campaign. After the campaign donated $500,000 to Sharpton&rsquo;s National Action Network, the MSNBC host gave Harris a sympathetic interview.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, recirculating Sharpton&rsquo;s 2023 comments should not necessarily call to mind the former and now best-forgotten vice president. Instead, they should remind us that Sharpton, who has sown racial division for a living, works for the establishment, and establishment operatives, when not encouraging the removal or destruction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/town-perfect-solution-washington-columbus-jefferson-statues-targeted-woke-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statues<\/a> to the Founding Fathers, only cite those great men in the most cynical ways imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, if establishment operatives can frustrate a peaceful populist revolution by distorting early U.S. history, they will do so.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, federal judges have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wife-federal-judge-threw-wrench-trumps-agenda-curious-connection-usaid-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usurped power<\/a> in order to slow Trump&rsquo;s ongoing assault on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/operation-mockingbird-doge-exposing-deep-state-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On X, that usurpation has prompted a debate about Chief Justice John Marshall&rsquo;s landmark 1803 opinion in &ldquo;Marbury v. Madison,&rdquo; wherein Marshall effectively invented the concept of judicial review, which does not appear in the Constitution, but which judge-worshiping law-school graduates always rely upon to buttress their false claim that the judiciary must decide the Constitution&rsquo;s meaning for the other two branches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JD Vance must have slept through his Constitutional law class at Yale. Just to remind, see Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison (1803): &ldquo;It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itO9ig8CHq\">https:\/\/t.co\/itO9ig8CHq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbJohnBolton\/status\/1889066113469644859?\">February 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marbury v. Madison is not found within the text of the Constitution. It was a judicial edict.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the goobers and reply guys who &ldquo;thought they said something.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They did not. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EcH1GGqxUC\">https:\/\/t.co\/EcH1GGqxUC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1891604421324251356?\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Madison, the sitting secretary of state and defendant in the case, ignored the ruling. Jefferson, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">sitting president<\/a>, likewise ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, in fact, Jefferson <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Jefferson\/03-15-02-0014#:~:text=no%2C%20dear%20Sir.,the%20progressive%20advance%20of%20science.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> the principle of judicial review as constitutional suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, even Marshall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1789-1850\/5us137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> that for the Supreme Court to order the secretary of state to take the action demanded by plaintiffs (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">government office-seekers &#038;mdash<\/a>; surprise, surprise) in &ldquo;Marbury v. Madison&rdquo; would have been to exercise a power not granted to the Court by the Constitution. In other words, SCOTUS could review a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-against-biden-doj-in-high-stakes-jan-6-case-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... rules against Biden DOJ in high-stakes Jan. 6 case - Washington Examiner\">law&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s constitutionality, but it could not control the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>Would establishment operatives like to have a conversation about Madison and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-ramaswamy-echoing-thomas-jeffersons-pro-america-anti-establishment-wisdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jefferson<\/a> now? After all, if we can restore their vision of the Constitution (or even Marshall&rsquo;s comparatively limited assertion of judicial review), then the American people might win back their republic.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we may thank Sharpton and his silliness for the unintended-yet-timely reminder of our true founding principles.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Recently, it showcased how establishment figures often reference the Founding Fathers in ways that seem either absurdly misguided or intentionally misleading. For example, an old clip of MSNBC commentator Al Sharpton resurfaced where he made a bizarre claim about James Madison and Thomas Jefferson attempting to overthrow the government to maintain power\u2014an assertion that seems too ridiculous to be deliberate. Sharpton stated, \u201cOne day our children\u2019s children will read American history&#8230; can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?\u201d This comment drew mockery online as it misrepresents historical facts about these key figures who actually fought against British rule during the American Revolution. Sharpton&#8217;s remarks were intended as part of a narrative regarding President Trump and the January 6 Capitol events but instead highlighted his misunderstanding of history. 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