OMG. Hamilton nailed Trump in 1792.

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30. Agree. Doesn't only fit RW zealots and leaders, either.

Hamilton, strongly conservative himself, would also have been as deeply concerned about the possibility of leaders rising from the left to “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”

This subject always makes me think of Jefferson. He's often described as radical. In ideas for those days, absolutely, but not at all extremist in its other meaning, in personality. His brilliant mind flexed and ranged very widely, and the way he was able to work with people with many strong differences of opinion, and they with him, became a critical element of the representative democracy they created.