Hamilton gets slammed because his side lost. Liberals won in 1800 and he became the poster boy of the evils of Federalism. Its the same thing liberals do to conservatives today.
Smoke rising over Atlanta said his side won. As do, in New York, Hamilton's hometown, a lot of finely-appointed Gilded Age parlors, with their elegant woodwork and imported marbles. As contrasted with the bleaching bones of 19th-century American agriculture that are still visible out in Jefferson's "yeoman" country, where New York-run agribusinesses now rule, and Jefferson's "yeomen" cling to a miserable existence as trailer-trash and air-conditioner repairmen.
Liberals won in 1800 and he [Hamilton] became the poster boy of the evils of Federalism. Its the same thing liberals do to conservatives today.
Liberals in 1800 became the conservatives of 2000. Or more precisely, "paleo-cons". People who call themselves "liberals" today are actually "progressives" -- both of which are in ironic quotes because the people in question are neither; they're Marxist-Leninists instead: neo-Stalinists.