America’s Lowest Standard
Try to imagine anyone like Trump surviving in any other segment of our society—business, entertainment, sports, the military.
by Charles Sykes
May 05, 2023
3 minutes
In one of his rare moments of naivete, Alexander Hamilton imagined that the Electoral College would afford “a moral certainty” that the office of the presidency would not “fall to the lot of any man, who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
He hoped that the electors would be a bulwark against men who had a talent “for low intrigue and the little arts of popularity.” “It will not be too strong to say,” Hamilton wrote in “” “that there will be a constant probability
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