We've been here before

It’s no coincidence that Alexander Hamilton is buried under Wall Street after serving as an aid to during the war to George Washington, who then appointed him Treasury Secretary. But, contrary to musical mythology, he was about as popular as Ted Cruz, contributing to his demise.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham describes Hamilton as “a man willing to sacrifice the American undertaking in liberty to the expediency of arbitrary authority” and noted Jefferson suffered from “wonder and mortification” at the prevailing Federalist climate in governing circles.

In a speech to the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton spoke of an American monarch, saying that it will “probably be found expedient to go into the British form.”

He favored a strong national government, sought to emulate the British financial system, was skeptical about institutions based on regular elections, was willing to entertain the possibilities of a hereditary or a lifelong presidency or Senate, and wanted money for the federal government to be raised by tariffs on imports. Sound familiar?

A contributing author of the Federalist Papers in 1787 inspiring the Federalist Society, whose wealthy manicured digits have touched: compromised judges on the high court; the fall of Roe; ending separation of church and state, and women’s and civil rights; and making corporations people under their dark-money darling, Citizens United. This brings us directly to the nightmare Project 2025 manifesto and Trump.

This isn’t a new fight. Wealth, arrogance and ignorance have always been trying to undermine the people’s power. Not happening, Alex. No kings here. Let’s sing a song!

– PJ Breslin, Rifle