Re: A Historic Number of Electors Defected, and Most Were Supposed to Vote for Clinto
Hamilton could just about named Trump as exactly what he had in mind.
As I explained in my last post, Trump is something very, very different than what Hamilton had in mind.
That is, again, if you accept that words mean what the dictionary says they mean.
If you're open to assigning any old meaning to any old word then I completely agree that words can mean whatever anyone wants them to mean in order to suit any purpose.
I take words at face value, you invent new meanings for words in order to construct irrelevant and largely impotent arguments.
Different strokes and all that, and who's to say who's right?
Regardless, it's neither here nor there at this point.
The electors have already voted and they've elected Trump, so I guess it really doesn't matter, at the end of the day, what some anonymous guy on the Internet thinks Hamilton meant, especially when Hamilton's opinion on the topic was just that, and carried absolutely no force of law.
Even if Trump was EXACTLY what Hamilton warned about, as you've argued, Hamilton's opinion in #68 was just a warning, it wasn't official instructions to potential future electors and there is no legislative mandate that electors even consider it.
As I said earlier, I think that, Hamilton made a very good point, and issued a very fair warning.
As with most things the Founders spoke on as it concerns our system of government, we all would be wise to heed their opinions, warnings, and musings.
But I disagree with you that Trump fit's Hamilton's description of a foreign power's "creature" no matter how you look at things.
Feel free to have the last word if you'd like, I'll read whatever it is you have to say, though I'm sure it will amount to little more than beating a dead horse, but I'll do you the courtesy of reading it nevertheless and I'll "like" it so you know I've read it, but I'm bowing out of this discussion because any "debate" is over.
