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Karl wasn’t all wrong back then. To fast forward its almost heartbraking what became of the party today he helped to found, the SPD

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I sometimes think that Alexander Hamilton was the most overrated figure in American history. It's not that he wasn't the smartest guy in the salon--he was. But his mind was one of wheels and gears. He never understood that a patroon class could not coexist with economic dynamism, or at least not for long. Jefferson understood better, although he made the wrong choice. And Franklin, perhaps, both chose rightly and for the right reasons.

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