Michael Lind lens on this election. Obama is a Hamiltonian, Romney is a Hamiltonian pretending to be a Jacksonian Jeffersonian.
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How is Romney pretending to be a Jacksonian Jeffersonian? Romney doesn't claim to increase the influence of the "common man"
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@Go37Pi The rhetoric is all targeted towards small economic actors.
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oh ok, that makes sense. I'd argue though that romney's pitch doesn't idealize the small actor aesthetic, so he is hardly pretending
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@Go37Pi I found his anti-big-bank/pro-small-bank rhetoric to be the 'pretend' part. Unless he can do magic, he simply cannot pull that off.
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that's true, definitely jeffersonian on that front.

