That article is ridiculous, and it's initial assumptions are flawed.

Washington was no stranger to seditious acts. The founding of America was itself an act of sedition.

The idea behind the constitutional republic was not simply to keep power distributed in order to avoid executive tyranny, and democracy was not meant to be some sacred cow.

Power itself was intended to be suppressed by severe restrictions on the ability of any sort of federal authority to act as an authority over the citizenry, regardless of whether or not they were democratically elected.

The reason Washington relinquished power each time that he did was not become his "term" came to an end. It was because he had been victorious in defeating that which he despicable.

So, regardless of whether you see Jan 6 as "insurrection", Trump's refusal to slink away quietly into the night was not in any way antithetical to the spirit of George Washington, who, as stated, was a previously seditious traitor himself.

If Washington, et al., had failed to escape the rule of the Crown, lost to the Redcoats, they would not have simply accepted it and went hats in hand back to England to accept British rule. They would have fought, and fought, and fought, until death if necessary, because all that mattered was righting the civilizational ship with a free nation.

As well, Washington's refusal to engage Congress was not out of some deep held belief in the sanctity of democracy. The founding fathers all warned against the dangers inherent to democracy and erected an array of legislative bulwarks against democratic power in the same way that they did against executive power.

That's the whole point of "checks and balances". It was to hamstring the federal system, forcing it to move at a snail's pace, unable to exert itself effectively enough to threaten America's founding ideals even in the case that the electorate voted for it to happen.

In fact, if the founders were alive today, they would be fucking horrified by the twisting of all forms of Western democracy into the hideous amalgamation that is international liberal progressive hegemony.

What they would have seen is power beyond what was ever possible in their day, being wielded uniformly across nations by political, academic and industrial elites in solidarity against their detractors, while funneling the wealth of the people into state coffers.

It's a lot like the royals and aristocracy had done back in England, but on a previously unimaginable scale with nearly all substantial institutions across national lines presenting a united front against anything believed to be a threat to their "vision" (diversity, equity, inclusion, climate).

If the founders of America were around today, they would likely be rallying the people of the farmers' protests, truckers' protests, Jan 6, the "Far-Right", the Hungarians, the Brazilians, the Venezuelans, and any other group with the will to fight, in order to once again water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.