Jan Lewis professor of history and chair of the History Department at Rutgers University in Newark says political violence was not unusual in the early American republic and Ted Widmer director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and former director of speechwriting at the National Security Council from 1997 to 2000 says Alexander Hamilton might have been a Democrat in 2004.
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