publius-esquire:

schulyer:

im glad social media didn’t exist in the 18th century cause alexander hamilton would have come up with some shit like thomas jefferson is Jack the Ripper

What do you, mean, there’s so much rich stuff from 18th century newspapers, where politicians and muckrakers didn’t even pay lip service to being “fair and balanced”. One often used was calling someone an infidel, an agent of Satan, or the Antichrist (Jefferson got that a lot). Another was going through the stock assholes of ancient Greece or Rome, like when James Callender said in his History of the United States: 

The maxims and wishes of Mr. Hamilton exceed any sentiment recorded from the hemp-crack-governor of the Netherlands. They rather approach to the comprehensive sublimity of Caligula.

Or, my personal favorite, someone might just say their opponent was dead, and it would take months to correct that sort of thing.