[Fai Mao]

I seriously doubt Jackson’s opposition would have supported faggots - evolved or other wise

[piasa]

Riiiiiiiighttt... that’s why Dems have those Jackson dinners up until ...last year. Democrats still trying to stick us with their human rights mistakes.

[wbarmy]

a love of middle class entitlement programs

This is a meme I have noticed some relatives taking. I am all about cutting down the size of government except for those programs which benefit me. Then they start talking about TRICARE or other military retirement programs as a government benefit.

But none of them ever served or ever would.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

It is also the Jacksonians who say to hell with the Supreme Court when the President clearly exceeds his authority.

[Tupelo]

With the exception of The Indian Removal Act, I think Jackson could be listed in the top tier of American Presidents.
THAT is the huge blot on his record.
But he did kick the federal bank to the curb. He did leave office with the United States DEBT FREE. Just to name two accomplishments.
But to me, The Indian Removal Act trumps the good things he accomplished.

[i_robot73]

“subsidize the urban poor”

Legalized slavery. Govt: What’s yours is ours to (possibly) give, whatever % we choose, to another of our choosing.

Yep, 5th and 13th alive and well in the Land of the Free.

[Impy]

Give me Adams or Clay.

[x]

"Jacksonianism" is Mead's trademark idea. I guess it's impressive that a Groton School and Yale grad like Mead is as fair and as appreciative of Middle American populism as he is.

But "Jacksonianism" is a scam -- at least in foreign policy, the field in which Mead originally applied the term. "Jacksonians" get upset about foreign interventions, international organizations, and "nation building."

Okay, but then they get so juiced about unilateral action and application of US military force that they end up dragging us into still more foreign conflicts, confident that we can win them on our own (which we often can't).

They skip "nation building" -- which may well be useless -- but we keep going back to do the same policing over and over again. "Jacksonianism" is a scam that gets us into more conflicts than we'd get into otherwise.