Fake Jefferson on Democracy
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49,” Thomas Jefferson supposedly said, in what’s arguably the most fascist quote on our list. Thankfully, he never did say it.
The quote, recently tweeted by conservative internet radio host Ben Bradshaw, seems to date back to 2004, according to the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia.
It’s fascist nonsense to call democracy mob rule, but mobs have, it might be said, become a tactic permitted, and even approved of, by the Republican Party.
