‘Hamilton’ brings together pols on both sides of the aisle

“Can we get back to politics, please? (Great job, @HamiltonMusical.) #Grammys,” she tweeted, referencing a line by Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) in the song “The Election of 1800.”

The cast of “Hamilton” had just performed its opening number, aptly titled “Alexander Hamilton,” at the 2016 Grammy Awards. When the show won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, “Hamilton” playwright and star Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped his acceptance speech, which was followed by rapturous applause from the audience at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.

After that performance, Google searches for “Who is Alexander Hamilton?” spiked to four times its normal rate. The musical — based on Ron Chernow’s biographical portrait of the life, career and death of America’s first treasury secretary — has been sparking renewed interest in American history and revolutionary-era politics since it hit Broadway last year.

Politicians have also shown enthusiasm for Miranda’s opus. President Obama took Sasha and Malia to see “Hamilton” in July 2015, and gushed about the show to New York Review of Books’ Marilynne Robinson.

“[W]hat’s most important about [“Hamilton”] and why I think it has received so many accolades is it makes it live,” Obama said. “It doesn’t feel distant. And it doesn’t feel set apart from the arguments that we’re having today. And Michelle and I, when we went to see it, the first thing we thought about was what could we do to encourage this kind of creativity in teaching history to our kids.”

Obama was so taken by “Hamilton” that he used a reference from its song “One Last Time” — about George Washington’s decision to relinquish his presidential power — to commemorate his last State of the Union speech in January.

The president also touted “Hamilton’s” rare ability to foster bipartisan unity, as proven by the way it brought together him and one of his biggest political opponents.

“It is brilliant, and so much so that I’m pretty sure this is the only thing that Dick Cheney and I have agreed on — during my entire political career — it speaks to this vibrancy of American democracy, but also the fact that it was made by these living, breathing, flawed individuals who were brilliant,” he said in the same New York Review of Books interview.

Cheney and his wife Lynne, a historian and author of James Madison: A Life Reconsidered, attended the musical in March 2015. Lynne told The New York Times she thought it was “great,” and that her husband “loved it too.”

“The music was terrific” and “the fact-line of the story was right on,” she said. “It’s a play about human beings who achieved greatly.”

Miranda couldn’t help but take a Twitter jab at Cheney as “the OTHER vice-president who shot a friend while in office,” referring to the way Aaron Burr shot and killed Hamilton in a duel while serving as Jefferson’s vice president.

One politician provided the contrarian view of “Hamilton.” Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner saw the musical with his wife, Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin, and was not particularly enamored with it.

“It didn’t jump out at me,” he told the Times, adding that it was just a reminder “that politicians hated each other back then too.”

“Hamilton” might have hit too close to home for Weiner: He and Hamilton were both embroiled in high-profile sex scandals that basically ended their careers in politics.

Everyone in the Clinton clan, on the other hand, is a big fans of Miranda’s work. Hillary, Bill and Chelsea saw the musical last spring, and, according to Miranda, Hillary showed off her history knowledge backstage after the show.

“When Hillary came backstage, she said, ‘Thanks for including John Jay,'” he told the Times. “He only gets one mention, as a co-author of the Federalist Papers. But she’s a John Jay buff, so she was happy he got a shout-out.”

Miranda said that he made a point to ensure “Hamilton” was as nonpartisan as possible, and was just trying to illuminate how America’s greatest early politicians had the same faults and vices as today’s D.C elite.

“It’s not angels versus devils,” he said. “If there’s any political takeaway, it’s that the founding fathers were incredibly human.”