What John Adams Started, Trump Wants to Finish

Before there was January 6, 2021, there was May 9, 1798.

Amid the specter of a potential war with France, President John Adams had set the day aside as a “National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer,” urging all Americans to ask God to protect the nation from foreign threats and domestic disunity.

Instead, the opposite happened. Thousands of proteste…