America lived through a Trump-like presidency before, with lasting consequences
By Dane Strother, opinion contributor — 02/24/19 01:00 PM EST The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill, TBR or corbe The old adage that one is doomed to repeat history if ignorant of it should be a current siren call for Democrats. America lived through a Trump-like presidency almost 200 years ago with Andrew Jackson, and Jackson’s ideology outlived his presidency by some 20 years. Donald Trump’s could, too, if history repeats itself.
One grew up an orphan and impoverished; the other was gifted with generational wealth by his father. One became a war hero, and the other dodged service. Yet America’s seventh president, Jackson, approached governing in a manner that mirrors Trump’s in many ways.
Jackson ran for president against a former president’s son, the political establishment and corporate elites, and won by making himself a champion of the common man. He lost his first race against John Quincy Adams when he received the most Electoral College votes, but not a majority of the Electoral College vote, which kicked the election to the Congress, who selected Adams. Jackson dubbed it a “stolen election†and coined the phrase “The Corrupt Bargain.†He spent the following four years claiming he was robbed, and voters ultimately joined him in anger.
He began his second campaign solidifying his political base in the South and rural areas by throwing gasoline on the fire of their resentment and belief that East Coast elites were living off the taxes and labor of hard-working, decent, regular folks.
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