Since when do conservatives hate capitalism?

The Federalists and Whigs were the conservative parties. The Jeffersonians/Jacksonians were notorious radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution. You want a look at two "conservative" Democrats of the era? How about Fanny Wright and Richard M. Johnson (Martin Van Buren's veep), who insisted that religion and irreligion had equal rights in the United States and therefore proposed that mail be delivered on Sundays.

It seems to me we have had this argument before and it's not going to change either of us. My family has been Republican since the Civil War when they fought for the Union. I am a Republican, not a Grover Cleveland Democrat.

The point is that, whatever the Mittwit may imagine, "conservative" does not mean merely or even obsessively comforting and sucking up to the privileged at the expense of everyone else. This is the constant albatross of the GOP and of the Know Nothings, the Free Soilers, the Whigs and the Federalists. We are no longer your great grandpappy's GOP and if the party has to lose an election or two while choosing establishment suckups, then so be it. None of us wanted carter but four years of that stooge meant we got Reagan instead of Ford after Ford used every elitist dollar and advantage to scrape past Reagan by a handful of delegates in 1976. Every now and then it is necessary to whack the elitists up side the head with a 2 X 4 to get them back to their polo ponies and out of the way.

BTW, I doubt Fanny Wright, an early abolitionist and feminazi had much to do with the Democrat Party of Andrew Jackson. Richard M. Johnson was hardly representative of the Jacksonian Democrats either. Virginia's electors refused to vote for him in 1836, causing him to be the only Veep elected by the Senate. He was such an embarrassment that Van Buren dumped him in 1840 and ran without a running mate rather than further abide Richard M. Johnson. Those two are no more representative of Jackson Democrats than Mayor John Vliet Lindsay was of Republicans or anyone named Romney for that matter. John Caldwell Calhoun must have been particularly thrilled with the two you have referenced.

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