{"id":15368,"date":"2016-03-25T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:16:15","slug":"its-official-you-are-required-to-hate-andy-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/03\/25\/its-official-you-are-required-to-hate-andy-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s official: you are required to hate Andy Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting “hm” tossed out here, in this anti-Trump editorial<\/a>…<\/p>\n

It is a way by which we can bring together in one concentrated image the way people in a given social environment organize and give meaning and direction to their lives.” Think of Chief Seattle, Rosa Parks, Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez or John Lewis. Yet obdurate traits of a people can also be exemplified (and stoked) by demagogues. Think of Andrew Jackson, George Wallace or Donald Trump<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Think of Andrew Jackson, George Wallace, Donald Trump…<\/p>\n

And so the historical vantage-point of Andrew Jackson has ebbed to a low point.\u00c2\u00a0 Once Harry Truman’s favorite president.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometime ago adapted as a positive virtue by the Weekly Standard to lift up Sarah Palin<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Hitchens knocks about with some bite on that “Bryan” part of the equation<\/a> — and it is worth pointing out where he was at the famed 1924 Democratic Convention<\/a> as probed in a recent New Yorker — fighting the good pro-McAdoo pro-Klan forces in the platform committee)\u00c2\u00a0 Now Jackson sits in historical disgrace, with standard line holding him as did John Quincy Adams sneering at the unruly mob of yee-hangers running into the White House to eat Andrew Jackson’s wheels of cheese.<\/p>\n

And so Jackson. So Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rebut:\u00c2\u00a0 I might as well as add my two cents. No 19th century figure could survive a comparison with our refined moral attitude. Andrew Jackson was BAD because he was a slaveholder, he had a prickly sense of honor, he believed in hard money, and was against a central bank. Yet, he was elected president twice and reflected a changed political sensibility<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rebut the Rebut:\u00c2\u00a0 It is the easiest thing in the world to say that we can’t judge them by our standards, but an entire party of Americans – the National Republicans and then the Whigs – judged him by their own standards and found him wanting on moral as well as political grounds<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And then there’s… Andrew Jackson took on the Banksters and defeated them. Trump is doing the same thing – which is why they are so angry and afraid. GO TRUMP!<\/em><\/p>\n

Well.\u00c2\u00a0 Jackson has a complicated legacy at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting “hm” tossed out here, in this anti-Trump editorial… It is a way by which we can bring together in one concentrated image the way people in a given social environment organize and give meaning and direction to their lives.” Think of Chief Seattle, Rosa Parks, Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez or John Lewis. Yet obdurate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15369,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions\/15369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}