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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: July 05, 2022, 02:27:36 PM »

I wonder if he would have publicly supported Adams had he lived, so that he would have been re-elected in 1800. But then again, Hamilton was against Adams at this point, so Washington might have been also.

Washington would not have picked sides one way or another. He'd have stayed out of it.
This is incorrect. For all his talk about nonpartisanship, Washington had become quite the Federalist partisan by the end of his life. He spent his last couple years trying to use his influence for the benefit of various Federalist candidates, and he and Jefferson were not on speaking terms at the end of his life.

Was this not provoked by the open hostility and partisanship of Jefferson and his allies toward his administration even before TJ resigned from the Cabinet?
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All Along The Watchtower
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2022, 04:26:50 PM »

I wonder if he would have publicly supported Adams had he lived, so that he would have been re-elected in 1800. But then again, Hamilton was against Adams at this point, so Washington might have been also.

Washington and Hamilton were very personally close but I don't think Washington would have started following Hamilton's lead on matters like this rather than the other way around, at least not at this point in Hamilton's life (his circa-1800 political ideology and approach were extreme even for the Federalists--more like a Bonapartist or a Frederick the Great simp than like Adams even at his most "muh national security"-minded).


Hamilton literally tried to oust Adams in 1800 and replace him with Pickney (of course, his plan backfired, expediting Hamilton's political fall - and the fall of the Federalist Party's fortunes in general).
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