OMG. Hamilton nailed Trump in 1792.

[BKDem]

Just quoted by Adam Schiff.

"When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen 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—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”

[dewsgirl]

1. I love Adam Schiff more, each and every day.❤

[PatSeg]

8. He has been incredible

Some of his speeches are like something out of an Aaron Sorkin movie.

[dewsgirl]

12. Perfect analogy, he really does.

[PatSeg]

16. I remember years ago

wishing that real politicians sounded like that. Guess some wishes come true.

[dewsgirl]

22. In this day and age, that's a miracle.

[PatSeg]

23. I know

We need our heroes and Adam Schiff is on the top of my list.

[broiles]

28. Adam Schiff or President.

[Volaris]

32. I would actually prefer him to be deputy AttyGen under Hillary Clinton at this point lol. .

Let it be HER name signed to the bottom of every single damned federal indictment these fuckers rightly deserve, and let this man be her point man/ attack dog/ 'Elliot Ness'.

I have spoken.

[PatSeg]

34. That sounds perfect!

[Hortensis]

38. :) Volaris has spoken. Let it be so.

[malthaussen]

40. You are a cruel, vindictive creature.

May I have your autograph?

-- Mal

[Volaris]

45. Righteous Justice would be, Hillary gets to be President. Short of that, vindictive must suffice.

Mal it would be a high honor (you've been here longer than I have lol!)...yeah, I'll sign it.

[pangaia]

33. i beg to differ...

some of the speeches in an aaron sorkin movie are lklike something out of an adam schiff speech...

[PatSeg]

35. Yes and Adam Schiff is real life!

[FM123]

2. Sure did!

[wendyb-NC]

3. Wow, that quote

fits the current occupant of the oval office exactly. Hamilton, must have been prescient.

I love Adam Schiff too, he is such a hero for our democracy and the rule of law.

[BKDem]

4. He must have been a time traveler.

[wendyb-NC]

6. I believe he was.

[Pepsidog]

21. They certainly were enlightened thinkers.

[nolabear]

5. Every day I'm proud to be a Democrat.

And, you know, have knowledge of history and stuff.

[Tiggeroshii]

7. From a few weeks ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212808063

[Duppers]

24. Ha! You knew that quote would be over his reading comprehension

Most all of them are dense and see and hear only what they want. Cult members are like that.

[Hortensis]

39. Lol, yup. Clueless, but dissing the quote because

he was busy knee-jerking at the person showing it to him. We're all Nazis here. And commies. We do have that in common.

[Lefta Dissenter]

9. OMG, Adam and I are twins!

I shared the exact same quote on FB right after seeing the play last month.

Somehow I think he likely did a better job of building on the quote than I did, however, so I won't try to take over his job.

[BKDem]

10. I was hearing it for the first time from Schiff.

Brilliant way to open this trial.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. They had malignant narcissist back then too....usually they were called "nobles".

[D_Master81]

13. Hamilton was also quoted by Thom Hartman

Saw Thom quote Hamilton in a piece worry that impeachment might 1 day become more about the power of a party than if the President was wrong in his actions. The guy must’ve had a vision or maybe we haven’t changed as much as we’ve thought over the past 200 years.

[Shanti Mama]

14. And I love his staff, who give him so much good material

They must be working crazy hard right now to keep pulling all this together. Lots of the credit should go to the behind the scenes folks.

[yonder]

15. This fits tRump like a glove

except for the "possesed of considerable talents" part.

[BKDem]

17. He has some malevolent talents...

...by not many military habits.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. But he's got "despotic in his ordinary demeanor" down pat!

[SpankMe]

18. And then there's the paragraph before that, to wit:

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

From: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. Yikes!

That Hamilton guy sure understands what’s going on.

[Duppers]

27. THIS ⬆⬆ should be quoted to every R.

Always loved Hamilton's quotes.

[Hortensis]

30. Agree. Doesn't only fit RW zealots and leaders, either.

Hamilton, strongly conservative himself, would also have been as deeply concerned about the possibility of leaders rising from the left to “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”

This subject always makes me think of Jefferson. He's often described as radical. In ideas for those days, absolutely, but not at all extremist in its other meaning, in personality. His brilliant mind flexed and ranged very widely, and the way he was able to work with people with many strong differences of opinion, and they with him, became a critical element of the representative democracy they created.

[wnylib]

36. Reminds me of a comment made by JFK at

a White House dinner for some of the brightest people of the time.

"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House, with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

[Hortensis]

37. Love it. On point enough to stimulate thought,

and what a fine tribute to Jefferson.

[wnylib]

46. The occasion of the JFK quote is also

a tribute to JFK himself. A president who knew American history and government and valued both. Also, a president who, like our last one, was confident enough that he was not intimidated by people with some smarts. Not like our current WH disaster who does not have two neurons to rub together for creating a thought.

[Hortensis]

47. Yes. JFK's confidence in himself allowed him to associate with

technically much smarter people easily and competently. Whatever happened to Trump, his development was somehow warped and stunted, including a believed pathological reaction to severe problems with self image.

Just occurs to me. A common pattern suggests a teenaged Trump would have modeled his appearance after someone he admired at that age (and that he would still). I wondered if that might have been movie stars Troy Donahue or Elvis Presley, but it occurs to me that JFK would also have been the right general age and physical type, and of course like the movie stars he was an object of adulation.

And so my thoughts decline from the great (Jefferson) to the great mess.

[wnylib]

48. I do not see anything in Trump's demeanor or

personality that suggest an attempt to emulate JFK.

Trump adores authoritarian types and seems eager to please them as well as to adopt their "values." He makes me think of a kid with an authoritarian, abusive father who withheld praise and dished out criticism. So the kid spends the rest of his life proving how tough he is and seeking authoritarian male approval.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

44. this was Putin's path -- to make people long for the security of USSR

[iluvtennis]

25. Indeed Hamilton was on point and it was geat lead-in slide for Schiff. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

26. ...

[DeminPennswoods]

29. Amazingly precient

nt

[NNadir]

41. Pure brilliance, finding that spot on description of Trump...

...from a founder of the Republic.

[Wounded Bear]

42. There truly in nothing new under the sun...

Trump is a repitition of the same old song and dance.

[uponit7771]

43. If certain words were changed then it would be like someone wrote it yesterday