“Manipulation”, “hot-headed”, “questionable morals”, “ambitious”? At least one and often more of those labels fit the presidents you list.
Very few of the Founders could stand against Hamilton in debate. None worked as hard or rapidly as he. Jefferson called him a “colossus”. There were more who admired him beyond all but Washington than hated him. Virtually everyman who became his friend stayed his friend for life.
NOTHING mattered more to Hamilton than protecting and strengthening the Union and none other than Washington did more to create it.
“Manipulation”, “hot-headed”, “questionable morals”, “ambitious”? At least one and often more of those labels fit the presidents you list.
Only if your world revolves around fetishizing over Hamilton. And yours apparently does.
Of all the major founders though, Hamilton was far and away the one most despised by the others. When four different presidents who diverge dramatically in their own politics nevertheless agree that Hamilton is a scoundrel, chances are it's because he's a scoundrel and not the other way around.
NOTHING mattered more to Hamilton than protecting and strengthening the Union and none other than Washington did more to create it.
Funny. One could similarly argue that no framer did more than Hamilton to sow the seeds of sectional division that nearly destroyed that same union in the Civil War.
And to paraphrase John Adams, Hamilton's attempts to essentially draw the United States into the Napoleonic Wars on Britain's side as a means of strengthening the union were tantamount to insanity.