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What Was the Acrimony Between the Federalists and the Republican Party?
When we think about party politics, our reference is what's going on now. What was the acrimony like amongst the parties back in the seventeen nineties? And you know, it is a striking thing. They all professed this aversion to partisanship and yet they very quickly split up into a pair of hostile ideological groups. Partly because hamilton and jefferson really just hated one another. Their clash was a sort of unusual one as hamilton was cast as a champion of the economic alete despite being himself a self made immigrant. Whereas jefferson liked to present himself at least as the the apostle of humble farmers,. whereas he himself was a rich, well connected slave...