That's basically who their governor is right now.

I think she's more ambitious than him but yeah they track in a lot of ways.

The stereotype of a bible-thumping fundamentalist at the time would have mapped onto somebody like John Brown a lot more than somebody like Robert E. Lee.

This was already starting to change in the antebellum era relative to the early colonial and revolutionary times when it was a more pronounced contrast, like the first big wave of Baptists took off in the South pre-war. But it was still less central to politics and society, relatively.

That was partly human geography: northerners lived in towns and cities, or even villages, that could easily support a church, while the southern planter class on their massive plantations (or even poorer white agrarians) were so dispersed you had fewer churches and less frequent weekly attendance.

They weren't secular per se, it was still an overwhelmingly Christian society all around of course, with plenty of Christian rhetoric and trappings. But churches and a kind of fired-up evangelical religiosity played a much bigger role in the North and in particular for anti-slavery agitation.

The North, especially New England and the Yankee diaspora into the upper Midwest, had vastly higher rates of church attendance, and much more fervent revivalist movements, than the South at the time. And of course that religious tinge carried through all the way into the civil rights movement.

He never officially assumed command, which wasn't legally his job as CJCS, but as the top officer he was effectively sending the signal loud and clear that any unlawful orders to help Trump or not accept Biden on Jan 20 would be ignored.

“We’re going to put a ring of steel around this city and the Nazis aren’t getting in.”

No, this is on the Massie legislation.

Seven legislative (i.e., working) days for the petition to "ripen" as it's called, and then the vote has to be within the next two. So if he let that play out it would push it into early December.

He's already not whipping against it, rules committee Rs told him they won't do anything to block it, and expectation is potentially dozens will vote for it, because why not at that point.

Johnson isn't moving the vote up in hopes of stopping it, he's trying to do it before they get to two thirds.

The image that always sticks in my mind for that total breakdown of the Constitution isn't Jan 6 itself, it's Pelosi literally rallying troops in front of the Capitol to protect Congress from the president.