Tom Paine – the original No Kings organizer – only instead of planning rallies, he wrote the best seller “Common Sense”. Written in plain language, it explained why we should break from the British monarchy. "For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever..."
Early Presidents praised him. Why did he fall out of favor? He wasn’t mentioned by a modern President until Ronald Reagan quoted Common Sense at the 1980 Republican Convention. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again” .