Based on my limited understanding, is this correct?
Founders give us Declaration of Independence, then Constitution. As implemented originally, this was peak government.
Hamilton went psycho and broke off, which caused Jefferson to heavily react, thus giving us democrats and republicans. Washington hated this, two parties was never the goal.
Republicans were the bad party in the beginning, because Hamiltonians destroyed the Constitution. The "Constitutional" party back then was the liberals.
At some point, democrats become so infected that they totally disregard the Constitution, while Republicans simultaneously revert back to it. This is why we have "Constitutional Conservatives" today.
So dems hold on to Jefferson, as this legendary democrat, but democrat back then meant libertarian, or constitutional conservative. This is why Rand, Massie, Amash probably accept the term (among others) classical liberal. Because their constitutional-based view of government was the same as Jefferson's.
If this is fairly accurate, then it shows that democrat and republican mean nothing, they are not based on any principles whatsoever, just power grabs. And this jives with reality today...the racism, warmongering, authoritarianism, hamiltonianism is heavily concentrated on the left. Worse than Democrats' false god Jefferson is Lincoln, who is a false god of not just republicans, but dems too. Lincoln was the worst president ever but just as if not more racist than anyone else. Yet the dems founded the KKK, the north was way worse for slaves than the south. And Republicans passed the civil rights act. So it's not like R vs D is austrian vs keynesian; neither party has core beliefs, such as sound money vs fiat. It's all just flipping whichever way the wind blows. They don't stand for anything.
The only real parties are Constitution vs anti-Constitution. If you vote anti-constitution, it doesn't matter if you are D or R. You are voting for the same evil.
Also if the above is accurate, when did the Constitution switch sides to Republican? Goldwater?
It seem arguable that Hamilton was one of the worst figures in our history, as he was the match that lit the fire that burned the Constitution.
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