Adams despised Hamilton because he found him doing his job when he would go to Braintree for months at a time at which point his cabinet turned to Hamilton for answers to complex issues.
Gee...an unelected ex cabinet official with no title or office who was recently disgraced in a major sex scandal starts pretending one day that he is President of the United States, and you see nothing wrong with that? Or why the real President might be slightly upset about it? Or why the real President and his next three successors might view such a person as a "threat" to their power and justifiably so?
Hamilton's insubordination pushed him closer to the verge of treason than any of the people he accused of the very same under the Alien and Sedition Acts. He wanted Adams to be his puppet as he led the country into an empire-building war with France. Adams justifiably said no. And he would have been equally justified for that matter to order Hamilton arrested, given the schemings that were going on in his private letters to Wolcott.
Nor do I care that Hamilton positioned himself as Wormtongue to Washington's Theoden. It says little to redeem Hamilton from being despised by practically every single other major founding father, and only proves that even Washington had his faults.
As to Hamilton's supposedly "superior mind," you delude yourself. Even a cursory review of his writings reveal Hamilton was a muddled second-rate thinker who misunderstood basic principles of economics and frequently contradicted himself without even realizing it. For a notorious hot-head who had been a principle in no less than 10 previous abortive duels to write on the eve of his 11th that he detested dueling is simply laughable. And yet that is what Hamilton did, apparently unaware of just how silly such a claim was coming from him. That is not a sign of brilliance, arrogantsob. It's a sign of questionable sanity.
Hamilton’s advice could have been ignored and probably would not have even been sought had Adams been around to do his job.
Hamilton was opposed to the A & S Acts and advised Congress not to pass them.
Democrats had a scheme to challenge Hamilton to duels until one of them killed him. None of these challenges were really legit since they did not involve personal honor but were just a means to kill a political opponent. When word got around about these plans they were dropped. H’s view of dueling at the end of his life was not the same as it had been earlier.
Compared to Jefferson’s activities in opposition to the administration he was VP in H’s actions were nothing.
Now you are peddling the Washington was a “dupe” line to account for his immense regard for Hamilton? Any other slanders you hope to sell today?
Hamilton was the principle author of the greatest political writings since Aristotle but not smart enough for you, LoL.
He never specifically wrote on economics outside of development and was principally concerned with government finance laying a program which allowed our nation to become the leading economic power in the world. His brilliance was attested to as much by his enemies as by his friends even Jefferson had to admit he was personally honest and was of such a stature that he called H “...a host within himself...” and a “...colossus...”
As to his alleged unpopularity with Democrats and Adams who cares? None of them did as much for our country as H and none could face him in an honest debate. Not the sneaking Jefferson, the weak Madison or an Adams consumed with envy of a man who was everything he was not.