Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher who visited the United States in the 1830s with a view to discovering why the American experiment in republican democracy was becoming so successful. When the United States became independent (in effect, in 1783 after the Revolutionary War), and set up a republic, there was a lot of mocking, scoffing, and laughing in Europe. ‘What do those dumb Americans think they are doing? They’ll never be successful.’ You see, the British had tried republicanism in the 1650s after they executed their king, and it had been a miserable failure in less than 10 years. Then, the French dismembered their king in the 1790s and established a ‘republic’ with the same catastrophic results. What made the Americans think they could succeed where the more (politically) advanced English and French had failed?” (12/14/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/12/14/alexis-de-tocqueville-and-dei-n2649056