Thomas Jefferson is on that cast of characters that's gone from deeply admired as a hero to treated as a goat in later years, the latter due to his problematic relationship with slavery, that latter being uniquely personally problematic in his case.
Jefferson was an agrarian, but he was not a member of the agrarian class. Indeed, as a planter, his class was in some ways in opposition to the yeomanry. But he saw them as the foundation for the republic and feared the day when that would cease to be the case, an act which led to his support for acquiring Louisiana, which he inaccurately believed would give the country 1,000 years breathing room. His warnings once seemed too dire, but now seem to be rapidly coming into fruition.
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