It’s been said, by the brilliant historian Will Durant and others equally cynical, that elections are merely a gloss for the wealthy to appease the rabble with the perception of self-government. Throughout history, it’s hard to find a popularly elected leader who genuinely bucked the interests of the plutocracy. Maybe Andrew Jackson at his National Ba…
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