Interesting. I was a big fan of Jefferson's back in high school, but got interested in Hamilton later because he was underrated and under-appreciated while Jefferson seemed to get away with murder. Given all that's been going on, I may have to rethink that now.
The Founders are just fascinating people. George Washington really did and does seem like what we can be when we listen to our better angels.
Hamilton and Jefferson are basically our ever present political reality.
John Adams is where our best hopes meet our actual selves.
This is a really bad extended metaphor.
It did seem like Jefferson got away with murder for hundreds of years because he was such a beautiful writer and had such an amazing intellect. He was a romantic hero. And if owned slaves, oh well, so did Washington and a lot of the rest of them.
Hamilton was brilliant but was unlikable and a street fighter and straight up got murdered by a political rival.
So, some corrections were in order. But, now I feel like the pendulum is swinging too far in the other direction. We need some romanticism in our political life again.