The Feud Between Thomas Jefferson And Alexander Hamilton Is Deeper Than You Thought
The first—and perhaps the most important—political rivalry in U.S. history was between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. The two Founding Fathers clashed over political differences, each trying to sway President George Washington to his side. But there’s more to the Hamilton and Jefferson feud than you thought.
Why did Thomas Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton? He called Hamilton a corrupt monarchist, a traitor to the country—and their beef went far beyond political differences. In the rivalry between Jefferson and Hamilton, both men would destroy their own reputations in order to attack each other.
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@proudgoyimm
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I like Jefferson way more but Washington was Def right on political parties
@Holtstrand
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton has aged far better. Jefferson was anti-social.
@mattconner11
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton was banging some dudes wife because he was an urbanist. Should have been a farm boy.
@ProfVRandall
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
People keep calling what happened between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings an “affair.” It wasn’t an affair. Sally Hemings was an enslaved girl owned by Jefferson. Enslaved people had no legal rights, no ability to refuse, and no power to give real consent. Calling it a relationship between “partners” ignores the violence and coercion built into slavery. This was not romance. This was an enslaver exploiting someone he legally owned. We need to stop using language that hides that truth.
@missinformed4269
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I love both those guys, even if they didn’t love each other.
@hunter_lite
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
After Hamilton's death Jefferson wrote of him to Martin van Buren "A man of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honorable in all private transactions… of pure integrity and of an entire devotion to the public good as he understood it." Jefferson didn't minimize the political differences but your presentation of the opposition as a hate feud is seriously off kilter.
Do better.
@Silent_Giants
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
From a poor Caribbean boy to one of the Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton’s journey is the ultimate story of ambition, resilience, and vision. He designed America’s financial system, served beside George Washington, and proved that greatness is not inherited — it’s earned.
@aaronnichols9444
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton’s American won giving us America, the Global Corporation, a bloated central power, the federal reserve, the New Deal and the conflicts destroying our country at this very moment.
@olyviaslvv
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I’ll always take Hamilton’s side in the Jefferson vs. Hamilton rivalry. Jefferson was a hypocritical snake who built his whole ‘vision’ of America on the backs of enslaved people while pretending he was some prophet of liberty. Hamilton actually built. Like, he created the national bank (1791), he stabilized U.S. credit after the Revolution, he set up the customs service and the Coast Guard to actually bring in revenue. He wanted industry, infrastructure, and a strong federal government that could survive in a world dominated by empires. Jefferson, meanwhile, sat in Monticello writing about ‘yeoman farmers’ as the heart of democracy while he owned 600+ enslaved people who did all the farming for him.
And let’s kill the ‘Hamilton wanted an empire’ take. Jefferson literally doubled the size of the U.S. with the Louisiana Purchase (1803). That was just land grab built on ignoring Native sovereignty and fueling more slavery. Hamilton wasn’t around to do that; he was dead. Jefferson’s ‘agrarian republic’ ended up being the blueprint for slave-based expansion westward. Hamilton was anti-slavery from the jump after seeing two slave boys, Christian & Ajax, suffer in his early childhood. He co-founded the New York Manumission Society in 1785 to push gradual emancipation. Jefferson wrote the words ‘all men are created equal’ then spent his life making sure it didn’t apply to anyone Black. In his 1814 letter to Edward Coles, he literally begged Coles not to free his enslaved people, saying it was better to ‘wait for public sentiment.’ Jefferson also spent years shitting on the Constitution, which he wasn’t even in America to help draft (he was in Paris), while Hamilton literally defended it in the Federalist Papers and convinced people to ratify it. Without Hamilton, there’s no functional U.S. government. Without Jefferson, we’d just have one less hypocrite waxing poetic about farmers.
Hamilton had flaws. He was cocky, abrasive, and absolutely wanted a strong central state. But between the two, he was at least honest about his vision and actually did the work. Jefferson sold the country a dream built on slavery and lies.
@EdwardandJessicaMiller
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Actually…Hamilton respected Jefferson enough to campaign for him to be President after the 1800 election came to a tie between Jefferson and Burr.
@branfordmonticello853
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Jefferson exposed Hamilton's consensual affair, but was sleeping with an underage slave and sending children born to her into slavery. And still debating if Africans were even human, while also equating slaves to wolves he "held by the ears and couldn't let go" of – because he feared retribution. Crazy work.
@branfordmonticello853
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
If Hamilton lived and became POTUS, there might not have been a Civil War, or at least not as many would've died because the notion of 'states rights' wouldn't have been a cover for inhumane brutal slavery. Jefferson spoke of liberty, but blatantly and hypocritically intended it in the form of xenophobic exclusion so he could continue to abuse others for financial gain (even sexual conquests) and send his own descendants of SA into bondage. That's a special kind of mental sickness that doesn't get the attention it deserves as the country continues to praise him – all while leaving out he was the spark that ignited the 1860 secession crisis and subsequent 650k-750k deaths.
@theflyingdropbear2009
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
if we look at it now, both were as bad as the other.
@itranscendencei7964
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton supported a central bank for the US. If you know anything about history, then this is all you need to know about Hamilton. Jefferson was right to call him a traitor.
@MarianneKunitz7777
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I'm disappointed Thomas Jefferson was such a piece of crap. No class. He was super wealthy off the sweat of over 20 to 30 slaves. He was slick having sex with his own slaves to make more slaves for himself. Jefferson could not match Alexander Hamiltons intelligence or writing skills. Jefferson and other founding fathers were ridiculously jealous of Alexander Hamilton. George Washing knew Hamilton very well and understood Alexander Hamilton was a man of integrity and honor along with great Valor! George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were a breed of honorable men the USA needs again.
@keithsmith4780
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Jefferson wanted a stable society of independent small farmers (as long as he remained a big farmer); Hamilton wanted a dynamic commercial society. Jefferson was born on top so he wanted a static social hierarchy. Hamilton was born with nothing so he wanted a nation in which people could rise or fall based on their own efforts.
@hofnarrtheclown
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I think it's not a big deal to say that The First French Revolution (which already started in 1787 btw) truly had taken a psychological and ideological toll to Jefferson's mental sanity, almost everyone but him was opposed to the foundational values of the U.S in constantly labeling the very foundations that forged the U.S as full-blown monarchism and as treachery to Revolutionary causes despite the Colonial struggle of 1774-1783 had only really been disillusioned insurrections in resistance to changes of colonial policies directed by english colonial governors.
@SilenceDoGood4th
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Jefferson was correct. Federalist are the down fall of America
@TailWeaverAJF
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Sounds like democrats vs republicans has been a pain from the start. If there is an argument to start i guess it will be started. HA, like in Pokemon Go. The very second people got to choose a team, everyone immediately beefed. Human nature is just to automatically pick a side and fight eh? I commend Washington for trying to lead and play peace keeper
@faznyc1
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Jefferson was 100% correct
@dutchnek
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I'm distantly related to T.J. so I take his side.
@kenburns4547
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
ANY sane person would hate Hamilton, He turned the USA into an EMPIRE, after Jefferson made it into a free republic of independent states.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1816: "if any state in the union will declare that it prefers separation with the 1st alternative, to a continuance in union without it, I have no hesitation in saying ‘let us separate.’ I would rather the states should withdraw, which are for unlimited commerce & war, and confederate with those alone which are for peace & agriculture." Hamilton DESROYED that with his LIES.
@shengcer
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
The start of American journalism was to serve as the attack dog of one political party against the other. The modern ones? Let’s say apples don’t fall far from the trees.
@NoahThorson-i4q
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I like Jefferson better
@nathanhuynh4191
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
100% Thomas Jefferson. People are only sympathetic to Hamilton because of the recent theatrical phenomenon. after that entire War, to go back to a monarchical government? Absurd. Jefferson embraced freedom of religion, speech, and assembly. He embraced the newspapers. Jefferson cared about education, science, and the progress of society. A philosopher that was a product of enlightenment. The voice of the common people, farmers, and laborers. Obviously slaves were not accounted for. But it’s the revolutionary era. Hamilton was not for abolishment of slavery either. Hamilton wanted autocracy. Jefferson, easily
@michaelvoigtlander9721
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
The last quote by Jerfferson at the end of the video is simply factual and true. Hamilton was a traitor.
@ItsInThereFam
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I bought a pack of Pieces of the past cards 2 days ago. And i pulled out a triple relic with handwriting from jefferson and hamilton. As well as what looks like a wax seal from a burr envelope
@metalrocker627
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton and Jefferson both displayed two necessary/essential philosophies when it comes to American governance.
@Openreality
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Since we weren't there, it's even easier to falsefy the whole thing.
@kyungahlee4441
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I love the history ❤
@samitysam2904
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Was Jefferson in the illuminati?
@Equilibrium-Manifesto
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton, the man who planted the seed for future Woodrow Wilson’s, central bankers, superPACs, citizens United, the patriot act, the cia, the fbi. He should have never been in the circle, he’s like one of those Henry Kissinger types, we all know he’s an enemy of our ideals but somehow worms his way into power
@chiefjustice6206
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton opened the doors for the bank of England to eventually take back control and it was proven in the war of 1812
@chadkline4268
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
YouTube educated comments.
@brittanybesecker6153
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
I'm on the side of Isaac Higgentoot 😂
Iykyk 😏
@iamjustsaying4787
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton was no patriot. Hamilton was an agent of the international banker to whom we are all today enslaved. Just as Jefferson feared.
@guypike6402
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Aaron Burr took care of the Bermudan puke!
@stan3070
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 am
Hamilton is and was a traitor
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