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When in the years following the American Revolution, Jeffersonian democrats raised alarms about the “moneycrats” and their counterrevolutionary intrigues -- they meant Alexander Hamilton and his confederates in particular -- they were worried about the installation in the New World of a British system of merchant capitalism that would undo the democratic and egalitarian promise of the Revolution.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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When in the years following the American Revolution, Jeffersonian democrats raised alarms about the “moneycrats” and their counterrevolutionary intrigues -- they meant Alexander Hamilton and his confederates in particular -- they were worried about the installation in the New World of a British system of merchant capitalism that would undo the democratic and egalitarian promise of the Revolution.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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And, of course, these broke but suddenly brilliant people carried out their stupendous looting without the slightest complicity from the aforementioned moneycrats.
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At least we know who one of the moneycrats by pratliff94 on Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 12: 30: 16 AM
Does A Major Swift-Boat Donor Become An Ambassador This Week? 2007
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Senator Long, the latest in a long line of Southern populist demagogues, had been decrying the power of land barons, “moneycrats,” and big oil since his days as Louisiana’s governor.
Steve Fraser: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism Steve Fraser 2010
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