Hamilton's achievements and deeds for this nation during the Founding were exceeded only by Washington and he has never been able to escape the punishment therefrom. Tearing down him while fraudulently building up Jefferson has been the intent of the Leftists in the universities and the media from that day forward. Washington admired no man more than Hamilton.
Jefferson is the most overrated president in our history and the more I learn about him the lower I rank him after starting out believing he was wonderful. Great cabinet maker, rhetoritician and demogogue but terrible statesman.
It wasn't the leftists that started tearing down Hamilton (if you want to get techincal, FDR was the first person to start ripping Hamilton, and he also bad mouthed Jefferson), but everyone else.
If you go back to the time frame, the men hated each other, Hamilton died young, Jefferson didn't, and his supporers didn't.
Jefferson and his friends spent years and years tearing down Hamilton after his death while building up Jefferson (who I actually am quite fond of, though I admire Hamilton more).
But not every liberal likes Jefferson just as not every conservative likes Hamilton.
A good example would be Robert Rubin whose role model was Hamilton and who went so far as to build a bust of him to admire every day while Senator George Allen is a huge fan of Jefferson and quotes him often (as did Reagan many times).