Are we ever going to stop this game of:
1. Trump says something off the wall, and
2. His supporters craft some kind of half-assed narrative to prove that Trump was right.
Trump said that no one ever thinks to ask why the Civil War happened? There are probably 5,000 books on that every subject.
He further states that Andrew Jackson would have stopped it - based on his never-ending belief that a strong leader making a great deal can fix any problem.
“... based on his never-ending belief that a strong leader making a great deal can fix any problem.”
The problem is that every leader thinks he is a strong leader, and thinks that every deal they make is a great deal. Many thought the Munich Agreement was a great deal at the time — until Hitler used it for toilet paper.
The Civil War was going to happen.