# As for the rhetoric that the evil industrial business elites are controlling the government through cronyism, that is old-school Jeffersonian and Jacksonian rhetoric. In those days, the Jeffersonians and Jacksonians were the left-wing populists, while the Federalists they denounced as industrial cronyists were the classical conservatives. The fact that "right-wing populists" view [[Andrew Jackson]], ''the founder of the [[Democratic Party]]'', as an ideological forefather, is very, very telling. | # As for the rhetoric that the evil industrial business elites are controlling the government through cronyism, that is old-school Jeffersonian and Jacksonian rhetoric. In those days, the Jeffersonians and Jacksonians were the left-wing populists, while the Federalists they denounced as industrial cronyists were the classical conservatives. The fact that "right-wing populists" view [[Andrew Jackson]], ''the founder of the [[Democratic Party]]'', as an ideological forefather, is very, very telling. |