The Constitution as a Right-Wing Coup and Alexander Hamilton as Startup CEO

• 1:37:31The Constitution is a right-wing coup designed to install a dual structure like Silicon Valley, with George Washington as figurative monarch and Alexander Hamilton as the startup CEO who actually does everything.
• 1:37:57Alexander Hamilton was a Black man and the first king of America, running the US government like a startup while Jefferson as Secretary of State is just a blowhard.
• 1:38:55The Constitution has structures designed to balance three forms of government—the House as democratic, the Senate as aristocratic, the presidency as monarchy—with power dynamics left entirely unspecified.
• 1:40:33Marbury v. Madison killed Hamiltonian government by having the Supreme Court claim it reads the Constitution to mean they're in charge.
• 1:40:53Every 75 or 80 years the United States undergoes a regime change—a replacement of structural forces under the same constitutional name.
• 1:41:31Lincoln, FDR, and Washington represent startup regimes centered around a president who functions as a hidden monarch, not actually called king but operating as one.
• 1:41:55Lincoln's administration was run by a self-educated wild genius and Machiavellian political talent whose actual philosophy was whatever was good for Abraham Lincoln.
• 1:42:55The Lincoln administration controlled its war effort through young men in their 20s like Nicolay and Hay—an organization run entirely top-down by a pair of guys in their 20s, like Facebook.
• 1:43:26These monarchical startup regimes eventually decay from central power into oligarchies as the wires go cut in the wheelhouse.

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