Source: Notes On Liberty
by Vishnu Modur, PhD
“Adams and Jefferson represented an early form of the ‘unity ticket.’ A straight-talking Puritan lawyer joined forces (with plenty of discord, of course) with a genteel Virginia planter proving that radicals and traditionalists could pull in the same harness. Every later balanced ticket: Lincoln–Johnson, Kennedy–LBJ, even Obama–Biden, traces back to this founding handshake. The two-track persuasion of 1776 is baked into modern politics. Jefferson wrote for the ages; Adams spoke for the moment.” (07/04/25)
https://notesonliberty.substack.com/p/the-american-founding-as-strategy