History never repeats (I tell myself before I go to sleep) – Split Enz These past 10 days have felt like…a bad dream: Last night with @realDonaldTrump & @JMilei pic.twitter.com/8AjQ8QMAIM — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2024 But alas, as Mia Farrow famously exclaimed in Rosemary’s Baby: Speaking of bad dreams…in an excellent piece published this week titled “Alexander Hamilton’s Nightmare Realized: How the Billionaires Hijacked America”, Thom Hartmann writes: Alexander Hamilton thought he (and the others who wrote the Constitution) had it all figured out. He and his colleagues never imagined that a group of billionaires would spend 43 years and billions of dollars to seize the US Supreme Court, which would then legalize political bribery. They never conceived of a foreign billionaire family coming to American and building a nationwide media ecosystem that was capable of convincing Americans that up was down, wrong was right, and a convicted fraudster and rapist would be a noble president. They would’ve laughed at you if you told them that the richest man in the world would come from apartheid South Africa to hook up with a grifter billionaire to become co-president. In Federalist 68, Hamilton wrote: “The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” Indeed, while a knave or rogue or traitor may fool enough people to even ascend to the office of mayor of…