Last week I wrote about the left’s abduction of Alexander Hamilton for their own purposes and the use of the popular Hamilton musical to appropriate Hamilton’s brilliance for their political goals. I then realized that part of the problem is that people just don’t understand Hamilton; they don’t understand his economic policies or the sheer inspired genius of his economic policies. If they did, they would never have succeeded in their attempts to appropriate him for liberal causes, so I turn back to Forrest McDonald’s excellent biography for insight.