Wasn’t Andrew Jackson the first Democrat President?
How ironic that the Democrat Party is dying now? How metaphoric is that? May his party die with yhe tree.
I just took the time to read Jackson’s Wiki page. That guy was very dirty politically, and with Taney’s help, he went after all his political enemies.
Jackson purchased a plantation later known as the Hermitage, becoming a wealthy planter who profited off the forced labor of hundreds of enslaved African Americans. He was responsible for stacking the Supreme Court through expansion with his puppet Taney at the helm.
He was responsible for the Indian removal Act that resulted in separation and removal of Native Americans rather than integration. He was responsible for the Trail of Tears. This was done so his government could take their land.
He was called “King Andrew the First”, by the Whigs who formed to oppose his politics. He used tariffs as a political tool.
How fitting that he was the founder and first Democrat President.
Andrew Jackson is widely accepted as "The Father of the Democratic Party". Some on the left have distanced themselves from him since they started obsessing on slave ownership in our early years. Now rather than credit Jackson, some try to shift the credit to his supporters. And Jackson owned a lot of slaves, and even bought and sold slaves for profit, leading to some branding him a "slave trader". And of course he signed the Indian Removal Act, which "cleansed" land east of the Mississippi of Native Americans. Ironically, the primary strategy Jackson's newborn democratic party was to claim the Republicans had stolen the previous election.
He was one of the greatest Presidents, standing for The Union, small government, and against a National Bank