"A Republic, if you can keep it."
Listening to Nancy Pelosi's announcement opening impeachment proceedings against the incumbant president, her use of Franklin's phrase resonates strongly. I'd used the same as the title of my pre-election 2016 essay at the #Dreddit:
Forty-Five: A Republic if You Can Keep It
Written in a haze, that's aged well.
The US is very much under a test of its principles, values, institutions, and Constitution.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5c88gg/fortyfive_a_republic_if_you_can_keep_it/
