Yes, they have been authors in what they thought was a good cause of a program too easily overreached and hijacked by Communists acting behind masks, and by Fabian dissemblers.
The old Jacksonians were the Jeffersonians on steroids, and their concern was the People. Jackson and Taney fought the banks and their octopoidal reach (we seem to be dealing with octopi today), and they fought the tendency of the Whigs to pour out public "improvement" capital in the backyards of the banks. Items: The Erie Canal, the Chesapeake Canal, the Transcontinental Railroad (Lincoln's 1862 legislation was a classic: it benefited nobody south of St. Louis), and the Federal Turnpike (US 40).
I guess you would have voted Bryan back 1896, while I would have cast mine for McKinley. But the fascinating thing is we both consider ourselves men of the Right today. Today’s GOP is truly a big tent, Hamiltonians, Madisonians, Jacksonians, Whigs, Bryanites, etc. All of the great political traditions of the pre-Wilson period have ended up under the GOP. The Democrats in the meantime have become a collection of Socialists, Fascists, and just your common coat holder Hacks.