Talk-radio star Rush Limbaugh condemned the “Hamilton” producers and cast on his Monday show, saying they don’t have a proper understanding of history and Hamilton himself.“These clowns in ‘Hamilton’ are playing a role,” he said. “They have their lines. They sing their lines in songs, and that’s it. And they think they are experts.”
But Limbaugh pointed out that, in reality, Hamilton was very much like President-elect Donald Trump.
“You know what the show’s about?” Limbaugh asked. “I mean, it’s Hamilton. It’s about a vice president who shoots a political rival and gets away with it, Burr, in a duel. Do you know that Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk? I wonder if the people in this cast have any idea who they are lionizing and celebrating. This guy is Donald Trump. Alexander Hamilton was a huge nationalist. He did not like states’ rights. He wanted a massive federal government. …
“Alexander Hamilton, he didn’t want anybody getting in the country he didn’t personally approve of. I mean, it’s uncanny.”
Limbaugh also noted that Hamilton authored a large number of the Federalist Papers and was a primary influence in the drafting of the Constitution.
“Alexander Hamilton was a profoundly unique individual, and I don’t think he is at all the kind of guy the people in these cast would celebrate if they literally knew who he was,” he said. “I think they know their lines and that’s it. They’re dangerous this way. Leftists are dangerous. They’re actors and they portray roles and they learn lines, and they think they are then experts.”
Furthermore, Limbaugh noted, Hamilton was a fan of aristocracy and actually wanted President George Washington to accept the role of a king. He said Hamilton was the “father of the Electoral College” and the founder of America’s financial system, the Federalist Party, the Coast Guard and even the New York Post.
“Everything these people on stage profess to hate right now, he was there either creating, inventing, or founding,” Limbaugh said. “That’s why I say, ‘I don’t think they have the slightest idea who the guy really was,’ and here they are highly acclaimed.”
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