The Constitution Was a Coup: How Elites Hijacked the American Revolution to Cage the People—And How Trump Is Finishing the Job

A Revolution for the People—Hijacked by the Few

America was born out of fire—out of pitchforks raised against empire, taxes, and control. In 1776, our ancestors didn’t beg for a bureaucratic machine. They declared independence from one. They risked their lives and livelihoods not for a central government, but for self-rule, for decentralization, for a shot at a society where no elite could play god over another man's life.

But revolutions, as history too often reminds us, are fertile ground for counter-revolutions. And that’s exactly what happened in the backrooms of post-war America.

While farmers starved and militias froze, America’s emerging class of power-brokers were scheming. Not for liberty, but for authority. Not for community, but for control. They weren’t interested in letting the people rule—they were interested in how to rein them back in.

The Constitution: A Blueprint for Authoritarianism

Let’s be clear: the U.S. Constitution was not a continuation of the revolution. It was its betrayal.

The Articles of Confederation—flawed though they were—still honored the radical vision of localized power. They declared that the states retained their sovereignty and that any powers not explicitly delegated to the central authority were off-limits. In other words, power would flow upward only when absolutely necessary. That terrified the moneyed class.

So they conspired in secret. Under the false pretense of “fixing” the Articles, a cabal of aristocrats convened to rewrite the American social contract behind locked doors. The result? A Constitution that dressed up central power in fancy language and handed it to a federal elite with no interest in democracy beyond appearances.

This wasn’t about the people. This was about taming them.

Shays’s Rebellion: The Moment They Took the Gloves Off

When veterans and working-class farmers in Massachusetts rose up against debt tyranny and tax plunder in 1786, they weren’t rebels—they were the revolution’s last real torchbearers. These were the men who had fought at Saratoga and Yorktown. They were being robbed by the very state they had bled to create. And when they resisted, the elites called it “lawlessness.”

But the rebellion wasn’t a breakdown of order. It was a rejection of corruption. It was a protest against a state that had quickly learned how to punch down—and how to use fear to expand its reach.

Elites milked the panic to drag George Washington out of retirement and rubber-stamp the Convention’s real goal: strip power from the people and crown a new central Leviathan. The Constitution wasn’t ratified with popular consensus—it was imposed by the frightened and the powerful, who smeared dissenters as anarchists and traitors.

The Founding Myth Is a Lie—and Trump Is Its Ultimate Weapon

Let’s burn the mythology down: America didn’t evolve into a centralized surveillance-and-tax regime. It was engineeredinto one by men who feared the raw democracy they helped unleash. And now, that machinery has been seized by the very type of man the Founders claimed to oppose.

Donald Trump isn’t an aberration—he’s the inevitable product of a system built for kings. He uses the Constitution’s concentrated powers to punish political enemies, trample dissent, and install loyalty over law. He cloaks his war on democracy in nationalist rhetoric and Bible quotes, but it’s the same playbook that crushed the backcountry rebels of 1786: weaponize fear, criminalize resistance, and consolidate power in the name of “order.”

Trump didn’t build the cage. But he damn well knows how to lock the door.

We Are Still at War—Only the Battlefield Has Changed

Fast forward to today, and the machinery they constructed is alive and well. It’s digital now. Slicker. More efficient. But make no mistake: it’s the same apparatus of suppression. The same racket that taxes your labor, monitors your bank account, and polices your dissent in the name of “security.”

The American people didn’t lose their freedom overnight. It was extracted, inch by inch, signature by signature, law by law. And the Constitution—revered like holy scripture—is the false idol that made it possible.

And now Trump stands ready to turn that false god into a weaponized regime of mass compliance. He doesn’t want a republic—he wants a throne.

Break the Cycle. Resist the Racket.

It’s time we stop worshipping a document that was never written for us. It’s time we reclaim the promise of the revolution—local control, mutual aid, voluntary cooperation, and no central authority dictating the terms of our lives.

Because the real radicals aren’t in office. They’re in the streets. They’re growing food. Building networks. Withdrawing consent. Fighting for a world where no one rules and no one is ruled.

The Constitution was their leash. Trump is the hand pulling it tight. Cut it.

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