What was gratifying was later in the discussion when the former prosecutor John Flannery called out the Federalist-fascist hack for citing the real Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper 70, the one in which Hamilton, the real one, not the fiction that that show-biz boob Lin-Manuel Miranda put on Broadway, called for the President to be a dictator of the kind Republicans are trying to make Trump into. Here is the passage that John Flannery pointed out was cited by Malcolm in defense of Donald Trump's criminality.
There is an idea, which is not without its advocates, that a vigorous executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. The enlightened well-wishers to this species of government must at least hope that the supposition is destitute of foundation; since they can never admit its truth, without at the same time admitting the condemnation of their own principles. Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy. Every man the least conversant in Roman history knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of dictator, as well against the intrigues of ambitious individuals who aspired to the tyranny, and the seditions of whole classes of the community whose conduct threatened the existence of all government, as against the invasions of external enemies who menaced the conquest and destruction of Rome.
I got the feeling while listening to the clip that John Malcolm hadn't actually read the document that is probably the foremost authority behind the Republican-fascist unitary executive theory of the presidency that is a menace to the United States in 2019, a theory which is probably supported - for Republican presidents, I doubt for Democratic ones - by a majority of those on the Supreme Court and in the Republican-fascist majority in the Senate. I can say that because they have installed so many of their fellow fascist believes in the federal judiciary with complete support by Republicans in the Senate.
In Trump, of course, they prove their total and complete hypocrisy and degeneracy and the stupidity of Hamilton BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE PROTECTING IS EXACTLY WHAT HAMILTON USED AS AN EXCUSE IN CALLING FOR A DICTATOR-PRESIDENT, TRUMP, THE REPUBLICAN-DICTATOR WAS INSTALLED BY A HOSTILE FOREIGN DICTATOR-GANGSTER WHOSE BIDDING HE IS DOING AND WHICH THE FEDERALIST-FASCISTS ARE ENABLING IN ATTACKING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
William Barr's and the Federalist-fascist establishment championing of the stupidest, most corrupt, most criminal, most degenerate man to have ever held the office of the presidency, one of the crew of such highly placed lawyers to do so, many of them the soured cream of the Ivy League class crop of law schools, proves just how stupid Hamilton's conception of the presidency is and how dangerous his thinking on the law and government is.
I took a lot of heat for pointing out that the musical "Hamilton" dishonestly held up one of the worst possible "founders" as some kind of hero of egalitarian democracy when he was anything but that. I did, unlike, perhaps, John Malcolm, read the Federalist Papers and knew what a piece of shit the writers of those were. Now, in this danger the country is in from Trumpian fascism, the show-biz bullshit has to be exposed for what it is even if it makes a lot of star bedazzled idiots unhappy, those who know nothing more than they see on stage, on TV in movies because that kind of lie about real people whose words and actions had and has real consequences is dangerous.
I'm tempted to say that it's unfortunate Aaron Burr or someone else hadn't shot Hamilton before he wrote that paper which has become so dangerous to us, today. I, of course, can't approve of dueling but, noting that Hamilton was sort of addicted to dueling - I believe he had been involved with about a dozen, if memory serves - that asshole was asking for it.
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