Part 2
America’s violent birth: Terrorism of the Patriots
1. ...extreme polarization, violence as a means of politics, and intimidation of the press were an integral part of the nation’s tumultuous birth. But instead of remembering that fierce rancor, we have been holding on to the founders’ powerful fiction of a non-violent, unified American Revolution. Today, as the deeply divided United States endeavors to find a way forward from its present perils, it is finally time to look back and reckon with this nation’s divisive, violent founding.
Most Americans don’t realize that the Revolution was not just a courageous struggle for noble ideals against an oppressive empire, but also America’s first civil war. John Adams estimated that one third of the American population supported the Revolution, one third were uncommitted and fully one third opposed the revolution — the American “Loyalists,” who cut across every social echelon, religious denomination and geographic region, as well as race. The Revolution divided communities and split families, most famously the Franklins of Philadelphia — Benjamin, the Founding Father, and his son, William, a passionate Loyalist leader. Faced with strong internal opposition, and soon, too, war against the world’s mightiest empire, the Patriots relied on terror — of acts of violence and the threat of violence — to crush dissent.....
Source: https://www.salon.com/2017/07/04/americas-violent-birth-why-we-shouldnt-be-surprised-that-u-s-politics-is-a-blood-sport-now/
2. "..extreme polarization, violence as a means of politics, and intimidation of the press were an integral part of the nation’s tumultuous birth."
"...the current administration peddles “alternative facts” and declares the press the “enemy of the American People,”
Those words in Holger Hoock's article remind us the current situation in America under the Trump administration.
Trump tweeted on February 17, 2017: “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @CNN, @NBCNews and many more) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people. SICK!” 
President Good Brain seems to be very familiar with the history of America's tumultuous, divisive, violent birth. That is how he "Makes America Great Again" (MAGA) as in the tumultuous era of the American Revolution.
Source: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-tweet-media-enemy-american-people-235150
