There is supreme irony in Madison and Hamilton spilling so much ink about an overgrown executive with a standing army leading to tyranny, given the military served as a constitutional backstop, and the "constitutional conservatives" are falling over themselves to support the open authoritarian. See The Federalist Nos. 26, 29 (Alexander Hamilton), No. 46 (James Madison).

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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.

^{Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)}