One thing I know for absolute certainty: Andrew Jackson would NEVER EVER have bailed out the big banks. Not in a MILLION years.
There was a little too much of the cult of personality among his supporters for my taste.
The liberals claim he was a racist against the Indians, but he even adopted an Indian child.
What the liberals mistake for racism was Andrew Jackson’s firm intention that if you attacked the United States or killed Americans, like the Creeks or the Seminoles did, you would be damn sorry until the day Andrew Jackson stood over your stupid ass while your all of your blood was running out into the ground.
This was, of course, why he ignored a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Cherokees.
They had fought alongside Jackson against the Creeks and the British.
The Indian child that Jackson adopted? He found him next to his dead parents. Jackson’s racist troops had butchered them. So yeah he adopted an Indian orphan, after he slaughtered that kid’s parents. The Seminoles lived in Florida, which was controlled by Spain at that point. Jackson then started to raid Seminole villages in Florida, not because they had attacked the US, but because the Seminoles harbored fugitive slaves. A part of the Creek tribe, called the Red Sticks, sided with the British during the War of 1812, but a large part of the tribe, called the White Sticks were either neutral or actively helped the US. Some White Stick Creeks actually fought with Jackson against the Red Sticks. After the war, Jackson took away half the Creek land, and didn’t care that a lot of it belonged to White Stick Creeks. 800 Creek men had fought against the Seminoles on the condition that their land would not be taken. When they came back, they were told they had to move out west to what is now Oklahoma. Jackson was one of our worst presidents.