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most parts of my family, Cromwell is a dirty word.
That inflection point draws closer and closer.
If you look at the trial of Charles I, and the impeachment inquiries of Donald Trump, you will find many similarities. Charles I was right in that there was no English law that gave Parliament the power to try a King, let alone put him to death. Charles repeatedly tried to get them to provide him with the specific law by which they were proceeding with charges against him, and they refused to comply, because there was no such law on the books. They made it up as they went along...just like the Democrat impeachment Committees, and the DOJ have done with Donald Trump. When it came to the January 6th Committee, no Congressional member who was a Trump supporter, was allowed on the Committee. During the trial of Charles I, no one, especially no member of Parliament who supported the King was allowed in Westminster Hall during any of the sessions.
Great post!
Funny how a Puritan mixes Christian rhetoric with Greek mythology (referencing one of Hercules’ twelve labors).
Plenty of anti-Cromwell sentiment in Ireland still, particularly when they bring up the siege of Drogheda.
What Cromwell did in Ireland is not too different from what hamas did in Israel. If there’s a hell I hope old Ollie is at the bottom of it.
Cromwell was a tyrant. He and the joyless religious fanatic Puritans who backed him are why my direct namebearing ancestor left England and landed in Jamestown in 1649.
We need a Cromwell.