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  1. 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 demeanor -- 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 and 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."
    -- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny

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  2. @mina

    #Economics
    #Neoliberalism
    #JamesBuchanan

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    You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
    strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanan's #VirginiaSchool:

    "...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

    @number6
    @fosstodon.org

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1125