Pretty hard not to associate Andrew Jackson with Trail of Tears tbf Mezz.
True. I think we may be entering the downslope of a Jacksonian cycle we entered with 9/11, however.
What Trump and Jackson share is that if you **** with them, they
will kill you. They do not forgive. They do not forget. Andrew Jackson got his revenge for a sabre slash delivered twenty-five years earlier at the Battle of New Orleans. Read the passage below, but substitute politics for war.
"Just win, baby." Those currently running the GOP will say that they are finally fighting the political battle the way their opposition has fought it since 1932.
Then finally, you've got a group called the Jacksonians, for Andrew Jackson. One way I describe them is to talk about an incident in American history that illustrates a lot of that school's values. When Andrew Jackson was a general in 1818, he was fighting a war against the Creek Indians in Georgia. Because Florida at the time was still under Spanish rule and there were two Englishmen in Florida selling arms to the Indians, who were then attacking U.S. forces in Georgia. Jackson took the U.S. Army across the international frontier into Spanish territory without any permissions or any U.N. resolutions. He went in there, arrested the two Brits, brought them back to the United States, tried them before a military tribunal and hanged them. And this did cause outrage in Europe. They said "These people have no respect for international law." But it made Jackson so popular in the U.S. that his election to the presidency was just a matter of time after 1818. [The idea is]: "Don't bother with people abroad, unless they bother you. But if they attack you, then do everything you can."
So in the 1930s, Hitler takes over Paris; we don't move an inch. He starts exterminating the Jews; we don't move an inch. Japan is [carrying out aggression] all over Asia. And on December 6, 1941, any opinion poll in the country would have said that most Americans wanted to stay out of World War II. Then December 7th, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and suddenly the polls change. Jacksonians: when somebody attacks the hive, you come swarming out of the hive and you sting them to death. And Jacksonians, when it comes to war, don't believe in limited wars. They don't believe, particularly, in the laws of war. War is about fighting, killing, and winning with as few casualties as possible on your side. But you don't worry about casualties on the other side. That's their problem. They shouldn't have started the war if they didn't want casualties.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Mead/mead-con3.html
The whole "white supremacist Trump" ploy is very effective for those who believe that white privilege and white fragility are like original sin. Those who do not share this view do tend to vote for Trump, to be sure. Some believe those folks will be cast into the pit of hell for this. Others disagree.
Time will tell.
PS - Who started the Democratic party as we know it today?
Jackson's supporters began to form the modern
Democratic Party. His political rivals
John Quincy Adams and
Henry Clay created the
National Republican Party, which would afterward combine with other anti-Jackson political groups to form the
Whig Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonian_democracy
Confession: all the wiki links have me feeling "very Damo" at the moment.
PPS - I point out the name of my fair city, and its link to the events outlined above:
