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3) It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'"
- Alexander Hamilton
January 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
2) When such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty, to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion, to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day,
January 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Founders were astonishingly prescient:

1) "When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour, known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty . . .
January 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM