Of all of his failings, I don’t think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.
Maybe he should’ve helped design a political system that doesn’t inevitably lead to a two party system.
Fun fact. George Washington died of bloodletting, despite the practice being largely relegated to the dustbin of history centuries beforehand.
The man was not particularly forward thinking.
Of all of his failings, I don’t think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.
There’s going to be some misses.
Does the small r go on reestablishing or republican 🤔
It’s a small r because they didn’t want to share freedom with the hard r