[Bryanw92]

Democrats didn’t become the party of taxes, entitlement, and special interest groups until long after Andrew Jackson was dead.

Lincoln destroyed the United States of America and recreated it as something that should be called the Federal Republic of America. Hint: the words “United” and “States” meant something before Lincoln. Today, they are just an empty name that has no significance other than a name like France or Spain.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

So true.

[Mozilla]

Okay. I get that Jackson was not around during the past 100 years when the government grew larger under the democrat rule. But LS is saying that he was for big government. So I lumped him in with Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter as one of the people responsible for the size of government today.

I agree that Lincoln did have his bad points. But, once the civil war started, I am not sure having the confederacy win would have been good.

[cynwoody]

Lincoln destroyed the United States of America and recreated it as something that should be called the Federal Republic of America. Hint: the words “United” and “States” meant something before Lincoln. Today, they are just an empty name that has no significance other than a name like France or Spain.

I've heard it said that Lincoln basically changed United States from a plural noun to a singular noun.

And the power of the federal government has been on the rise ever since, the next big steps being the 16th Amendment and the stretching of the Commerce clause to enable FDR's New Deal shenanigans.