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BREAKING: In His Most Famous Quote, Alexander Hamilton Gets Everything Wrong

BREAKING: In His Most Famous Quote, Alexander Hamilton Gets Everything Wrong

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I know you’ve seen that quote.

How could you not? It was everywhere in liberal circles—badly truncated, as above—during Trump’s first term. The quote was supposed to show prescience, about Trump, on the part of the hero of the Obama-period extravaganza “Hamilton: an American Musical”—and to show the great insight of the founders in general regarding the…

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