Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Biden blasts 'MAGA Republicans' as a threat to democracy" video.

  1. It's Hamilton's Curse writ large. Jefferson warned about what was to come, and it did. "As Jefferson recalled it, 'Adams said, '[P]urge that constitution of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would be the most perfect constitution ever devised by the wit of man.' At this point, 'Hamilton paused,' Jefferson wrote dramatically, 'and said, '[P]urge it of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would become an impracticable government: as it stands at present, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect government which ever existed.' "To Jefferson, this story held the key to Hamilton's politics. 'Hamilton was not only a monarchist,' he wrote, 'but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.' It was Hamilton's corruption - defined by Jefferson as his ability to sway Congress to his will - that most disturbed Jefferson. As he complained to Washington in 1792, Hamilton had at his disposal a 'squadron devoted to the nod of the treasury.' Out of the public eye and able to serve their own interests, such men would 'form the most corrupt government on earth.' To Jefferson, it was Hamilton and his self-interested friends, not the people, who reigned supreme." -- Jefferson files at Mount Vernon.
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