IO AND REP PARTY RIDE ROUGHSHOD OVER HUMAN RIGHTS

Hamilton understood, as he wrote in 1792, that the republic remained vulnerable to the rise of TRUMP, an unscrupulous demagogue, “unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents…despotic in his ordinary demeanour.” That demagogue, TRUMP, Hamilton said, could easily enough manage “to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day.”