How Locke Would React to the Storming of the US Capitol
The recent storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, represents a component of classical liberalism as the philosopher John Locke indirectly defined it in his Second Treatise of Government.
For Locke, if personal liberty is not upheld in a polity by the ruling class, then it is the right of citizens to protest in the form of revolution.
So … in what way would Locke condone the storming of the Capitol?