This, I think, is the raw Hamilton—the Hamilton of the "Federalist" is curbing his tongue & talking his book. Washington had thrown his weight behind the Constitutional Convention, and so Hamilton...
I think you have to start from the premise that, as Chesterton said of Christianity, democracy in America has never been tried. It was more or less an oligarchy from the beginning, perhaps an aristocracy, if one is inclined to be charitable. What will come from the wreckage left by Trump is something I can't foresee. All I know now is that (1) the current crop of leaders within the Democratic Party is for the most part hopelessly inadequate to the exigencies of the Union (to paraphrase Hamilton); and (2) the Constitution is about as useful today as the Articles of Confederation were in 1786.
I think you have to start from the premise that, as Chesterton said of Christianity, democracy in America has never been tried. It was more or less an oligarchy from the beginning, perhaps an aristocracy, if one is inclined to be charitable. What will come from the wreckage left by Trump is something I can't foresee. All I know now is that (1) the current crop of leaders within the Democratic Party is for the most part hopelessly inadequate to the exigencies of the Union (to paraphrase Hamilton); and (2) the Constitution is about as useful today as the Articles of Confederation were in 1786.