". . . The fierce debates about Jefferson and Burr took place amid a welter of reports that the Federalisdts would refuse to yield power. One Republican scenario hypothesized that desperate Federalists would prevent both Republican candidates from being elected . . . Nobody was more upset by talk of extralegal schemes than Hamilton, who thought that any interference with the election would be "most dangerous and unbecoming." . . . "
". . . "Not only did he not show up, he's not there for anyone who were there and supposedly were there to save democracy and save the country. When in fact, they were doing quite the opposite," Brunvand said. . . But the idea of Jan. 6 did not die with the day. The University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats has been tracking insurrectionist sentiment in the U.S. for a year now. It found that 21 million share the same beliefs that motivated rioters that day. . . In other words, millions of Americans support the idea of political violence. Researchers call it "an American insurrectionist movement" that, a year after the attack on the Capitol, is still alive and well. . ."
