As Maddow points out, the attempted revival of nullification is spreading like wildfire. This is what President Andrew Jackson had to say about the nullifiers in the South Carolina legislature:

“Tell them that they can talk and write resolutions and print threats to their hearts’ content. But if one drop of blood is shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man of them I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find.”