Well, I think giving JQA a 'statesman' title is a bit stretchy
I did not intend to apply that term to JQA explicitely, but to that whole generation of men who were still working out the logistics of turning the American Ideal into a working political reality (I did use the plural term).
And partly what makes that line so impressive to me is that he was living deep enough within the political system to have first-hand experience with the sticky, messy, sausage-making aspects of it (mixing treacle in with the tar and feathers).
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I did not intend to apply that term to JQA explicitely, but to that whole generation of men who were still working out the logistics of turning the American Ideal into a working political reality (I did use the plural term).
And partly what makes that line so impressive to me is that he was living deep enough within the political system to have first-hand experience with the sticky, messy, sausage-making aspects of it (mixing treacle in with the tar and feathers).