Nobody knows if Kid Rock is serious about challenging Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s reelection in Michigan next year. But this interesting little item from the site promoting his proto-candidacy would suggest a populist message that might find traction in a country in the midst of an insanely complex health care fight and on the brink of an insanely complex tax policy fight: The demand for radical simplicity in government is a very old idea; as the Conservative Review ‘s Chris Pandolfo points out , it goes back at least to Alexander Hamilton.