“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” ~ Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

They are animated by a mythology that only three percent of the original American colonists were the vanguard of the American Revolution and they consider themselves its inheritors. They call themselves the Three Percenters.