history but this guy had been a hero in the continental army and even given a sword by lafayette the marquis de lafayette in france and hero so many towns named after him he had upon his sword in order to try to pay some of the taxes to the oligarchy washington thought this was a major threat and we needed a more centralized federal constitution jefferson of course said you know that the tree of liberty must be refresh from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants and a little rebellion is a good thing we should have a continuous revolution jefferson's a flawed character but i tend to human his direction on this one the 3rd strand of paper patriotic dissent you call the nationalist what's that you know this in a very simplified and and i think misunderstood way this has some of the america 1st aspect to it it's been misunderstood the isolationists weren't quite as isolationist or anti sematic as most of them have made been made out to be but it's the idea that national interests have come 1st and that far flung wars and adventures and imperialism is alternately not in our interest one of the w