[Hemingway's Ghost]

Hamilton was a complete douche, though. He's one of the main reasons we have so much partisanship today.

[MNJohnnie]

I see him as more Andrew Jackson like.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Hamilton was George Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury, and was the father of the first "unconstitutional" private central bank, which Washington signed into law. Where was the Birch Society???

And to think the neo-Confederates have the unmitigated gall to claim Washington as their own!

[mjp]

George Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury’s singular legacy in the realms of the banking system, taxes, tariffs and trade treaties is beyond doubt.

Pro and cons:

Hamiltonism - governmental consolidation, the elimination of true federalism, dominant executive power, and mercantilist economic policies - amounted to a betrayal of the principles for which Americans fought in the Revolution.

[Lisbon1940]

He’s energetic. “In quantum mechanics, a Hamiltonian is an operator corresponding to the sum of the kinetic energies plus the potential energies for all the particles in the system (this addition is the total energy of the system in most of the cases under analysis).“

[ridesthemiles]

For anyone here on FR who has NOT read Atlas Shrugged”, I highly recommend that you do so.

I ran out of “unread’ books in my house a month ago & I picked up “Atlas Shrugged’ & read it for about the 14th time. Took me 13 days. 1087 pages in paperback. IT NEVER disappoints.

[Publius]

In a never-ending series of tired leftwing clichés -- culminating in the current impeachment orgy -- Donald Trump has been compared to such modern historical monsters as Hitler and Mussolini, when in fact the more apt comparison would be to a fictional character, Ayn Rand’s John Galt, the uber-capitalist protagonist of her novel Atlas Shrugged.

In Rand’s “Objectivist” worldview the individual reigned supreme, as the “collective” stifled human liberty and economic prosperity, and it was only the absence of the state from the machinery of commerce that the individual was able to live a free and meaningful life.

[minnesota_bound]

I wonder if Broadway will let him sing and dance in the show : )

[Paine in the Neck]

Hamilton was the original Swamp Creature.

[Pelham]

Hamilton? Okay.

But more than that Trump is the second coming of Andrew Jackson, the first populist President to outrage the elites of his day.