and one of his two “inflexible” rules was American ships MUST BE granted UNRESTRICTED entry into the West Indies
Considering that the Jay Treaty did anything but, yet still received Hamilton's backing, they must not have been "inflexible" after all.
I note you keep ignoring the fact that the democrats had prevented our ablest negotiator
Since when did a well-known hothead with no meaningful foreign policy experience and an unusual recurring propensity to find himself in the middle of duels become our "ablest negotiator" in the mind of anyone other than a fanatical idolater of his cause?
Your posts are full of this sort of patently absurd assumptions. It's all "Hamilton was our ablest negotiator, ablest economist, ablest financier, ablest military man, ablest this, that, and the other." Yet nowhere do you ever bother to establish that your characterizations of Hamilton are even remotely accurate, and more than once now it has turned out that the opposite is true.
Don’t forget “ablest lawyer” and “greatest political writer”.