This Tenth Amendment Center episode features Michael Boldin discussing Thomas Gordon’s 1744 writings (from his translation of Sallust), which prophetically warn how political parties function as a dangerous cult: they invert morality by praising or condemning actions solely based on partisan loyalty rather than right or wrong, substitute party principles for ethics, and seduce followers through blind zeal, ignorance, slogans, and manipulated "facts." Gordon highlights how this flips good into evil and truth into falsehood, enabling tyrants while destroying liberty—echoing today’s hyper-partisan divisions as the real "enemy within" undermining freedom.
