The left’s insane quest to use government force to make us all equal in every way has caused untold misery and bloodshed ever since 1789. But despite his early support for the French Revolution, Jefferson meant something quite different by "created equal" in the Declaration of Independence from what the French were talking about in "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality."

For Jefferson, we were only 'equal' in a very limited way. He actually made very clear that it was not the government's job to achieve any further equality than what we were born with.

Despite this, conservatives from John Randolph to Russell Kirk to Paul Gottfried have conflated the equality in the Declaration with the French socialist variety. Many have dismissed the Declaration and it's statement of principles as "not that important," and even intimated that Jefferson was wrong in proposing these "abstract ideals" as foundational to the American republic in any way.

I talk about why I think that view is mistaken, what Jefferson meant and where he got the idea of "all men are created equal" in today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom.

I will have part two of We are at war and I don’t mean in Ukraine for you sometime this week. It seems to have touched a nerve because I've been receiving messages from subscribers thanking me for writing it.

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