I find it repulsive that the democrats try to amend the freedom of the President to invoke the insurrection act, when specifically they could be and should be the people that act is invoked for and on, it's folly to think they would ever allow the invocation of it upon themselves. And they will easily give a democrat president the right to invoke on all of us.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was invoked during labor conflicts. Later in the 20th century,it was used to enforce federally mandated desegregation,[11] with Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy invoking the Act in opposition to the affected states' political leaders to enforce court-ordered desegregation

The founding fathers thought deeply about the issues at hand and how to administer freedom and still maintain the republic. I believe the this discussion of insurrection, eventually led to the Act (not positive)

Federalist Paper #10: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection

Alexander Hamilton

If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

February 8, 1788.

Author: Alexander Hamilton or James Madison

“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community”

There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects

There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.

It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-baycollege-americangovernment/chapter/federalist-papers-10-and-51/