The Democrat-Republican party of Jefferson tried in many ways to destroy Hamilton who was the greatest political philosopher of the last millennium.
Hamilton was responsible for getting the US off on the best foot through his Financial System, opposed every step of the way by Jefferson’s Democrats. They tried to kill him with overwork and never thought he would accomplish what they demanded.
He was a phenomenon the like of which we have never seen.
Democrats were the same in 1788 as in 2018,
At one point they had decided to challenge him to a duel one after the other until he was shot. That was called off when the word leaked out.
Which biography are you reading?
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Fantastic read—so much did not know about him.