You are a known Trump hater on this board, but the GOP best beware that they do not make Cruz John Quincy Adams this go around.
I shed no tears over the “Trail of Tears.” If the lying, thieving Indians were still running things, we’d all living in wigwams and scalping people.
The establishment of the day looked at Jackson much like today’s establishment looks at Trump.
Humans never change.
Very interesting history with current political slant woven in. Thanks for posting.
My take from reading this? Apparently we’re about 25-30 years from CW2.
Vividly underscore the need, in the mind of the founders, for future commander's-in-chief to be born within the country of two citizen parents.
Thanks for posting.
Jefferson, iirc, called Jackson “that madman.” He was certainly a dramatic and polarizing figure.
His birthplace is claimed by both North Carolina and South Carolina. Following her husband’s death, his mother was staying with one of her sisters when Andrew was born, but it’s not known which one.
Good article. Kasich would be today’s John Quincy Adams. Trump is very obviously in the role of Jackson. Cruz was left out back in 1828, but today’s sequel has added a new character.
Cruz and Trump are very different in style and are both imperfect, as Adams and Jackson were. Still, they agree far more than 80% of the time (see my tagline from Ronald Reagan). They should be friends and allies, and we should treat both of them as such.
And Martin Van Buren, 8th president, went down in history as the inspiration for the Van Buren Boys.
What’s his point? Trump as Jackson? I came away from that article more stoked than ever that a brash, unpolished outsider is going to Washington to wage war with the effete.
If it was a comparison to Cruz the article would be about how some Canadian spaz with an odd shaped head, no lips and no chin is going to Washington to clean it up one stall at a time in his bathrobe.
Weakly Standard fail. They should change their name to that.
Thank you for posting an interesting article about an important president. John Quincy Adams is my line (though I am not sure by blood, as there is an adoption somewhere along the way), but he is not a favorite of mine.
Excellent article. Read every word.
That said, Go Trump!
Interesting, and while Trump may be an egomaniac and a boor, he is no Jackson.
Strikes me that there is a much better argument to remove Jackson from our currency than there is for doing in Hamilton. If the Washington Redskins name is offensive, then what can one say about the Trail of Tears $20?
Interesting piece, thanks
In front of the Maryland State Capitol stands a statue of Roger Taney the first catholic Supreme Court justice, appointed by andrew Jackson to replace John Marshall. Taney was later the author of the Dred Scott decision ... An act that helped propel an obscure state senator named Abraham Lincoln into the presidency. Chief Justice Taney administered the oath of office to Lincoln, who had no respect for him .. Taney lost his personal fortune in the civil war and died in poverty on the day slavery was outlawed in Maryland. His slaves were freed and given pensions in the terms of his will... A bit of rambling here but always an interesting period in us history and the interrelationships of the individuals who made it
His wife conveniently, for him, died of a heart attack in the same way Breitbart and Scalia conveniently died of heart attacks, too.
“take and lock the door against all danger of foreign influence.”
Yes, I believe this is a great idea. Now, remind me again, is a Canadian a foreign influence?