Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's bottomless attacks on each other are just a microcosm of the barbaric era of American politics. In fact, such stories have not stopped since the second presidential election of the United States.
The presidential campaign war started with John Adams
The second presidential campaign of the United States may be the dirtiest presidential campaign in American history. The campaign pitted John Adams against Thomas Jefferson in a campaign debate that began with policy disagreements and turned into personal attacks. Campaign propaganda funded by Jefferson accused Adams of being an "ugly hermaphrodite" who smuggled prostitutes into the country from England and planned to marry one of his sons to one of King George III's daughters in order to A royal lineage was established in his family. Adams' supporters called Jefferson a coward, a French radical, and a heretic who would seize upon the nation's Bible and let the "garbage of Europe" flood American shores. Look at the rhetoric of the two sides, and the methods are very familiar.
The nepotism of the US president began with Adams
Trump appointed his son-in-law Kushner as a senior adviser to the White House after taking office. Many American legal experts believe that he is nepotistic and violates the law. But Trump didn't care. He pointed out that when Clinton was president, he also appointed his wife Hillary as the head of the health care team. In fact, the founding fathers did this kind of thing when the United States was founded. When Adams was vice president, his son served as the ambassador of the Netherlands. When he was president, his son served again as ambassador to Prussia.
Can you imagine the President of the United States who is more superstitious than the Chinese monarch?
? The author of the Declaration of Independence and the second president of the United States, after his overall failure in re-election, he blamed a day of fasting. In 1798 and 1799, while in office, Adams issued a presidential proclamation calling for a national day of "solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer." In a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush after his re-election defeat, he wrote: "The national fast which I recommend leads me to leave office." This excuse makes me wonder how he became the president at that time.
He took office as a president who openly reneged on the Declaration of Independence.
"All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
John Adams, as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, boasted of freedom. However, when he was president, he slapped himself in the face and signed the "Immigration and Riot Act", which set up obstacles for immigrants and set up new shackles to restrict freedom of speech. This made the "Declaration of Independence" he signed a joke.
The people in "All men are created equal" do not include Indians and black slaves who were trafficked to the Americas. During the term of President Adams, the policy towards the aboriginal Indians completely inherited the cruelty of Washington period. The difference is that due to the easing of relations with Britain, he can devote more energy and troops to massacring Indians. massacred more Indians during his term than during Washington's period.
Bad comments from colleagues
Jefferson, the third president of the United States, criticized Adams: a disgusting talker, a crude hypocrite, and an unprincipled tyrant... He is the most appalling fool on this continent. Not only does he He has no idea of an administrator and no courtesy as a minister of state. He is a despicable person without manliness.
One of the founding fathers of the United States, one of the drafters and signers of the United States Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, published a pamphlet criticizing John Adams: disgusting egotism, uncontrollable bad temper, fundamental Not qualified to be President of the United States.
One of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, accused Adams of being a "damned American tyrant" and "a villain who should be cursed by all mankind." He mocked the fat old Adams as a "ball" and said he had a "belly a foot and a half high."
James Otis of Massachusetts commented on Adams: You don't care about anything, your only purpose is to make enough money and live comfortably!
Of course, as an American politician with a professional background, Adams was also good at talking. He contemptuously called Hamilton "the bastard son of a Scottish hawker."
Look at the sins of the founding fathers of the United States. It turns out that they are not human at all!
