Posted on 08/24/2020 6:44:58 AM PDT by SJackson
Correct.
There was JFK, and Nixon. Both lost.
I have never been a fan of Jackson. But, several years ago it became clear to me that the Eastern Elites hated and feared him because he “was not one of them.” First President to be raised outside of the cabal.
Agree.
Ugh. Andrew Jackson, first Democrat president, started the “spoils system.”
Yep he got rid of the bank (same as the Federal Reserve today) and was the only president to get rid of the US debt completely. Amazing what can be done when you do not have the Federal Reserve, which by the way is private not federal.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Make no mistake, Trump is also resented from deep within the GOP because he’s an outsider. The party elites are every bit as much a part of the Deep State cabal as the Dems are.
Jackson probably had fewer enemies than Trump does.
Starboard,
Exactly!
Add Lincoln to the list
bkmk
“Ugh. Andrew Jackson, first Democrat president, started the “spoils system.”
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Jackson was obvious about it and received loud newspaper and Congressional criticism for it. However, make no mistake, the spoils system existed and thrived before him. It was just not so obvious that the elites were appointing their own, because the appointees WERE their own.
Great column. Spot on.
Ditto, here.
And one actually lost much more than the other.
The so called spoils system was a President appointing people who would execute his policy. Instead we have a Prussian style bureaucracy that naturally corrupts and decides IT sets national policy.
A president must follow their talking points or get impeached. Vindman said this on every without a hint of being aware of how horrifying this is.
Spoils system was better
Don’t forget McKinley.
Maybe.
We have prospered tremendously under the bureaucracy. But it is hard to know if they helped or hindered.
What they have done, is take enormous amounts of power, given to them by the Congress and Courts, and they are pretty much unaccountable.
And the rest, they say, is Lorenzo's Pizza history.
“There was JFK, and Nixon. Both lost.”
Oh boy! I remember both like they were yesterday. I can’t say that I remember Jackson, though :-).
I have long thought of Nixon in comparison to Trump. There are many parallels with their journey — especially the media (and good ole WAPO). This time it is different, though. Trump is a fighter and we have Rush, Fox (or at least we did have them) and we do have sites like this and others!
A lot of folks I know picked up on that about Vindman - who is this Trump idiot who thinks he can just go talking to the President of the Ukraine without consulting ME! ME! What about ME!
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