DAVID HOGBERG: Alexander Hamilton Was Stupid:

Actually, Alexander Hamilton was a brilliant man. But even brilliant men sometimes advance ideas that turn out to be spectacularly wrong-headed. Such is the case with Hamilton’s Federalist Paper No. 68.

This long-forgotten work is suddenly relevant because a bunch of celebrities–some famous, some you’ve never heard of, and one whose plastic surgery makes you go “DEAR GOD!”–have appeared in a “public service” ad imploring the electors to the Electoral College to vote for someone other than Donald Trump. Citing Federalist Paper No. 68, they claim that Hamilton designed the electoral college to ensure that the only persons who were to “an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications” would be President.

The “DEAR GOD!” is certainly merited.