WI An American Terror?

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All Revolutions "eat their own children". Victorious radicals turn on each other and the purists kill the pragmatists, then die themselves in orgies of vengeance. France, Russia, Mexico, there are few exceptions

But America never did.

WI Washington delivered a rousing call to arms instead of a touching plea for patience when the Continental Army appeared ready to revolt?

Would the guillotine ever dominate the public square of Philadelphia?

Who would be America's Robespierre, Marat, Danton and Napoleon?
 
All Revolutions "eat their own children". Victorious radicals turn on each other and the purists kill the pragmatists, then die themselves in orgies of vengeance. France, Russia, Mexico, there are few exceptions

But America never did.

WI Washington delivered a rousing call to arms instead of a touching plea for patience when the Continental Army appeared ready to revolt?

Would the guillotine ever dominate the public square of Philadelphia?

Who would be America's Robespierre, Marat, Danton and Napoleon?

Hard to imagine Washington as a POD for an American terror. What about later in history, such as McCarthyism turning bloody with "communist sympathizers" being rounded up and executed? It would require some sort of major provocation though.
 
The question of course, is whether or not the American Revolution was really a revolution. After all, the colonies never had a corrupt hereditery aristocracy, or a landowning political clergy. There may not have been universal manhood sufferage, but property owners, which included a very large minority if not majority of the population in most colonies had the vote as well as right to property. The colonists had most everything later revolutions were aimed at. The founders were hardly revolutionaries in the normal sense, being property owners and landed gentleman and merchants. They would hardly start a bloodbath in the name of ideology.
 
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