Wait, hold on, hold on. I'm going to play you something.

I'm going to get you in the mood for the episode. Hold on, check this out.

John Adams is a blind, bald, crippled toothless man who wants to start a war with France.

While he's not busy importing mistresses from Europe,

he's trying to marry one of his sons to a daughter of King George.

Haven't we had enough monarchy in America?

I'm Thomas Jefferson and I approve this message because John Adams is a hideous

her maphroditical character with neither the force and firmness of a man nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.

If Thomas Jefferson wins, murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced.

The air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood

and the nation black with crimes. Are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames?

Female chastity violated, children writhing on a pike?

I'm John Adams and I approve this message because Jefferson is the son of a half-breed

Indian squawl raised on hoe cakes and Hamilton is a creole-bastard brat of a Scotch peddler.

That's from our friends over at Reason TV. Good stuff. Well done, lads.

But Germain to our episode today because my guest, you're going to like him,

he maintains that we've been having the same fight over and over again

since that bygone election. That American political rank war goes all the way back to dueling competing visions of the Enlightenment, that the founders

of the country came with two different ideas of how it should be run and we've been untangling those two

nexuses ever since. Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton. This show is made possible

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