Jefferson wrote in 1787
And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0348
To think that Trump holds the same office as Jefferson is truly mind-blowing. How far we have fallen.