Barbara Tuchman had said, in The Proud Tower, that what passed for the upper class here, a faux British lower gentry really, which had set a somewhat higher tone (not very high) for American politics, abandoned active involvement in politics altogether, to a demagogic rabble in my view, by the time of the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson, in 1830.
There are many reasons for this outcome. Try to think of some.
Don't try to kid yourself about it, say: "Oh, that must be the beginnings of a meritocratic criterion starting to assert itself in politics in a democratic process."
Don't try to kid yourself about it, say: "Oh, that must be the beginnings of a meritocratic criterion starting to assert itself in politics in a democratic process."
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