Let’s get u on record"
Ha! Well... you might get an argument for that from SC Senator John C. Calhoun, plus a good many Lost Causers on FR CW threads have expressed their dislike of President Jackson... you know.. that whole "hang the secessionists" deal?
- "...please give my compliments to my friends in your State and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.[65]"
- "John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body."
So Jackson was my kind of Democrat, and we could add to the list others like Jefferson, Madison & Monroe -- all staunch nationalists and all pretty good conservatives.
But not quite as conservative as they pretended, and for proof of that, you need only look up Virginia Congressman/Senator John Randolph and his tertium quids -- the Old Republicans.
They were the true conservatives to Jefferson-Madison-Monroe's Democrat pretenses.
Of course, on the other hand -- if you consider Jackson's duels, the bullet he took, the man (men?) he killed dueling... certainly by today's standards, "nut case" is not too strong a term, is it?
As for "insane"... well, there was always a method in his "madness".
So I like Andrew Jackson for the same reasons I like Donald Trump: he put America & Americans first.