The Federalists and the American Revolution

The federalists were trying to destroy the liberty loving legacy of the revolution, he says. The reason they did it is because they thought the U.S. needed to be a competing nation to the existing European power structure,. They had to compete for power or they would bedestroyed by somebody., writes Julian Zelizer. "One of the big problems with American populism as a tradition is a huge percentage of it is just dumbass fixed capital holders"