Posted on 11/24/2015 2:03:10 PM PST by freddy005
No, lefties only started to hate him recently due to his anti-Indian stuff. Lefties LOVED AJ until about 20 years ago. After all, it was the Kennedy court historian, Arthur Schlesinger, who wrote “the” book on Jackson and all the Jackson historians I know (Robert Remini, for example) are huge leftie Dems.
I don't know that Lowery knows "the issue" any more than people who constantly use and abuse the word "populist" without knowing that it really means leftie Dems seeking total government control. I'm suspect of anything Lowery writes anymore.
Mead originally presented "Jacksonianism" as a counterpole to "Jeffersonianism," "Hamiltonianism," and "Wilsonianism" in foreign policy: "Jacksonians" were nationalistic, populist, and unilateralist in contrast to isolationist Jeffersonians, materialistic Hamiltonians or idealistic, internationalist Wilsonians. When the terminology caught on he started to apply it to other aspects of American politics. Few administrations fit neatly into just one category, and just how much his terminology has to do with the real, historical Andrew Jackson would take a little effort to sort out.
bttt
This is one of the most “nuanced” put-downs of white Southerners, people who are intuitive, people who dislike being talked down to by elitists and people who believe in traditional American values that I’ve read in this political season.
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