Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Thomas Paine, writing from Philadelphia, February 14, 1776
Chuck Schumer's threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were right in line with the fundamental purpose of the event at which he was speaking, which was to promote violence against the innocent.