The Alien and Sedition Acts as taught to We the People in school, was likely the liberal position which stated they were an unconstitutional abuse of authority by an administration that should have been stopped.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The reality, as Daniel Greenfield discussed in his book, Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left:
[T]hey were a response to persistent efforts by France to hijack American politics by using radical activists, fake news and riots, conspiracies involving members of Congress.
French agents went on to create a network of ‘Democratic Societies’ to act as their agents which ultimately blended into the Democratic-Republican Party.
In short, the Alien and Sedition Acts were directed against a very real threat still operating today.
There is only so much left of the Alien and Sedition Acts,…
