The Predatory Elites in the Age of Jackson

The Jacksonian Democrats are best understood as a kind of as the first sort of populist political movement mass political movement in the United States I think. They claim to represent the common man, but they were also talking about predatory elites and land speculators. Jeff Yang: There was resentment among working Americans about how bankers seemed to be getting rich, even though they didn't do anything that that was recognized from this perspective as labor.