Are You Falling for the Oldest Trick in Tyranny’s Playbook?

Author: Tenth Amendment Center
Published: Fri 25 Apr 2025
Episode Link: https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/04/are-you-falling-for-the-oldest-trick-in-tyrannys-playbook/

They call it “just this once.” But that’s how it always begins. One unconstitutional act becomes a precedent – and suddenly, lawless power becomes routine. From Tacitus to Paine, Dickinson to Washington, history has screamed the warning: precedent is how tyranny becomes law. In this episode, we trace the oldest trick in the tyrant’s playbook – and why free people must resist it before it’s too late.

Path to Liberty: April 25, 2025

SHOW LINKS:

JOIN TAC

Show Archives

James Otis, Jr – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp act (1765)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)

Niccolo Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1531)

John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1698)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)