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http://nypost.com/2015/11/23/donald-trumps-appeal-is-as-american-as-andrew-jackson/

Trump doesn’t believe in limited government. “Jacksonians believe that the government should do everything in its power to promote the well-being — political, moral, economic — of the folk community,” Mead writes. “Any means are permissible in the service of this end, as long as they do not violate the moral feelings or infringe on the freedoms that Jacksonians believe are essential in their daily lives.”

Trump isn’t ideologically consistent. The Jacksonian philosophy, Mead notes, “is an instinct rather than an ideology — a culturally shaped set of beliefs and emotions rather than a set of ideas.”

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Mead is badly wrong. Jacksonianism was the most inconsistent philosophy out there. It strongly protected slavery, and in fact the Democrat (Jacksonian) party was CREATED specifically to protect and perpetuate slavery. It was not "small government" in anything it did. Jackson expanded executive power, especially through the veto, which, like a muscle is a power no matter how you use it. He ignored the US Supreme Court when the Court protected the Indians. He imposed the (Legally passed) Tariff of Abominations rather than, as a small government guy would, get it repealed.

You'll find in our "Patriot's History of the United States" that Jackson comes out as one of the biggest "big-government" presidents ever, and overall as a % of population or just in sheer numbers, the government grew absolutely and relatively under Jackson.