.@iowahawkblog 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/bdmvsQKAod pic.twitter.com/VzQ9wRe1WC
— Independent Journal (@INJO) April 20, 2016
Why was Andrew Jackson put on the $20 bill? The answer may be lost to history. https://t.co/7AGakbAo4O pic.twitter.com/6sXVxsQVb9
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) April 20, 2016
Democrats even cheer the replacement of the founder of their party with Republican Harriet Tubman https://t.co/kL0I7Fmf33 @PJMedia_com #tcot
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) April 20, 2016
Following pushback from Hamilton defenders, $20, not $10, will have a new face https://t.co/5d1Z3Dyuyx pic.twitter.com/QCesqZmX0V
— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) April 21, 2016
This is crucially important to remember in the Hamilton $20 story. https://t.co/3hR1LJm9jX
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) April 20, 2016
Ace Of Spades: ...Of course it wasn't conservatives who won the argument, or any argument about history, or the Constitution, or America that won the day --none of that has any voice in the leftist dominated, relentless-pursuit-of-the-trivial national discussion.
It was a dumb (in the sense it's not a terribly serious thing) Broadway musical employing hip-hop to tell Hamilton's life story that ignited the ADD attention of liberals and won the day.*
As Andrew Breitbart always said: Politics is downstream of culture.
And so Hamilton keeps his place, not due to any argument about his historical importance, but because of pure happenstance that at this particular moment the NY-DC-LA media axis had a brief enthusiasm for, get this, a lavish buzzworthy watercooler-factor entertainment spectacle.
I wanna cry that a woman is on our currency. That it's a black, republican? Pure joy. Pure freaking joy. A gun touting black republican.
— Ali A. Akbar (@ali) April 21, 2016
