To agree with some of the other comments Mr. Litt appears to be pining for the Obama years. He also lacks a clear understanding of Hamilton's life and the debates over the constitutional convention.
Hamilton was an elitist and a monarchist. He was no Democrat. Madison and Jefferson had that role.
Hamilton was also a workaholic egomaniac. Maybe that explains his popularity among politicians and New Yorkers. (N.B. the author is a workaholic New Yorker with political dreams. )
Hamilton's big speech at the convention called for a vigorous executive. He called up the army to suppress domestic dissent.
With the exception of the ScotchIrish libertarians like Patrick Henry and later Andrew Jackson. The founders were far more afraid of debtor rebellions than Washington as king.
Mr. Litt also ignores the deeper stain that precedes African Slavery. We are living on "mostly" stolen land.
As Gregory Ablavsky from Stanford has written, both Madison and Hamilton shared a hatred for and need to control the indigenous population of the "New World."
This country was founded on the slaughter of "Natives" and the enslavement of Blacks AND frequently "poor Whites."
According to Pauline Maier, even the hallowed Bill of Rights was a bait and switch operation to impose heavier taxes on the poor and make them pay.
Yes, vote our or reimpeach Trump, but we need to discard "useful myths" of the left and the right, if we want a better future.
If our sacred founders are White guys with guns engaged in a tax revolt, then we need a more inclusive Founding Myth.
Maybe that means we have to keep Robert E. Lee, but balance him with Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Stokely Carmichael, and Frederick Douglass.
In this UN year of the Midwife we need more Quaker and female archetypes. Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abigail Adams, Weetamoo, and Alice Walker, maybe the needed counterbalance the dueling nature of American Politics.
As a final point if Covid-19 has taught us anything it is that Tip O'Neill was right. All politics IS local. Geography still matters. Guidelines for NYC fail upstate. Vermont is a socially isolated workers paradise. "Thanks Bernie," and the Yankee farmers who proceeded him.
We need to find ways to balance the contributions of ALL Americans, even the UnReconstructed Confederates. Otherwise we are just confirming their story of cultural defeat and banishment.
I would prefer a peaceful end to our "Long Civil War." Please don't write another trilogy where "righteous northerners" reform the South only to wait for the inevitable Backlash.
Federalism did not originally mean National control. It was a careful balancing of National, State, and local interests. There could be worse models of government.
