Posted on 01/25/2017 12:02:45 PM PST by pissant
When Jackson was elected, people really seemed to think that “the country was rescued from some dreadful danger,” as his opponent Daniel Webster said.
Guess Trump looks at Jackson as someone who didn’t take anyone’s crap.
If Sam Houston was any guide, had Jackson lived to the Civil War, he might very well have become a Republican (or at minimum an anti-secessionist Unionist).
It's been assumed that Jackson won the popular vote and had the presidency stolen from him by Adams and Clay.
But actually, some states didn't count the popular vote back then. State legislators chose the electors in many states (including most importantly New York).
So while Jackson did have more popular votes, when you take sentiments in those states into account, it's highly possible that Adams could have been the "People's Choice."
Looking back on 1824, we tend to assume that politicians positions were what they became later, and people knew exactly what they were voting for when they chose Jackson or Adams or Clay or Crawford.
But actually, these guys were all members of one party, all Jeffersonian (or Madisonian or Monrovian) Republicans, and differences between them were nowhere near as apparent as they were to become later.
One thing that is striking is that slavery was a little more of an issue in 1824 than many later historians believed.
Not that abolitionist sentiment was strong, but there'd been a lot of heated debate over the Compromise of 1820, and voters in New England and New York were tired of a quarter century of Virginians in the White House.
“The current “civil service” system has left us with a Federal Government that is now 80% Democrat.”
We have a weapon to rid ourselves of the illegal, fascist bureaucracy - The Holman Rule: New House GOP Rule Lets Lawmakers Fire Individual Federal Workers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/holman-rule_us_586fcc26e4b043ad97e320dc
Use it to rid yourself of commie and fascist bureaucrats in your community. It can’t get much easier than that, or accept a jackboot on your throat if you don’t act.
“I’d like to see Trump nominate Dan Snyder to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs.”
Ha!! Great idea! I bet Steve Bannon and POTUS45 would do it!
I understand and appreciate your sentiment. For some reason I just can’t get the whole abortion, feminazi marches and speeches out of my head.
They have become so radicalized and militant. I wouldn’t be too surprised to see something they try or do, along with their emasculated followers, as being the next spark igniting the proverbial powder keg.
BS
He was he the founder of the Democrat party
Don`t tell me you favor what Jackson did in regards to issueing the tariff of abminations
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