Trump's Appeal as American as Andrew Jackson

Real Clear Politics ^ | 11/24/15 | Rich Lowry

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Trump's Appeal as American as Andrew Jackson

After the Paris attack, conventional wisdom held that Republican voters would finally turn away from political outsiders and reward candidates representing sobriety and experience. No one stopped to consider that, actually, voters might be drawn to the guy who memorably said of ISIS that he would “bomb the [expletive] out of them.”

Not only has Donald Trump not been hurt by Paris, he has bumped up in the aftermath (Ben Carson, on the other hand, has indeed dropped). The cliché about Trump is that he’s defying the laws of political gravity. If Trump is cutting against the contemporary political grain — certainly, no one else could get away with being as routinely careless and insulting in his statements — he is also tapping into one of America’s deepest cultural and political wellsprings.

In large part, Donald Trump is a Jacksonian, the tradition originally associated with the Scotch-Irish heritage in America and best represented historically by the tough old bird himself, Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory might be mystified that a celebrity New York billionaire is holding up his banner (but, then again, Jackson himself was a rich planter). Trump is nonetheless a powerful voice for Jacksonian attitudes.

Historian Walter Russell Mead once wrote a memorable essay on the Jacksonianism that, so many years later, serves as a very rough guide to the anti-PC and fiercely nationalistic populism of the 2016 Trump campaign.

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[LS]

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.

[LS]

Of course Biddle fought to keep his institution. If you believed in your "company," wouldn't you? Yes, Jackson is viewed as a bigot---but the historians completely overlooked that for nearly a century because he was the "founder" of the Democrat Party. He, of course, was a slave owner.

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.

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Historian Walter Russell Mead once wrote a memorable essay on the Jacksonianism that, so many years later, serves as a very rough guide to the anti-PC and fiercely nationalistic populism of the 2016 Trump campaign.

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.

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[Albion Wilde]

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.