If Andy JACKSON didn't ruin himself as one of my boyhood heroes, DRUMPF's praising him as one did it

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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/15/fake-populist-donald-trump-pays-homage-fake-populist-andrew-jackson.html
[font size=5]Fake Populist Donald Trump Pays Homage to Fake Populist Andrew Jackson[/font]

By Hrafnkell Haraldsson on Wed, Mar 15th, 2017 at 5:02 pm

Trump, like Andrew Jackson, hates Indians, is a fake populist and as David Crockett said of Jackson, is a threat to the "national government"

.... “Jackson was a rabble-rousing egalitarian, a war hero, an early American nationalist and ruthless persecutor of indigenous peoples. His legacy matters a great deal to Trump — or, we should say, to a coterie of his close advisers, who styled Trump’s unlikely rise in the vein of Jackson’s populist insurgency. “Like Jackson’s populism, we’re going to build an entirely new political movement,” said Stephen K. Bannon, now the White House’s chief strategist, in an interview last November.” ....

“The truth is the Jackson worshippers became desperate and had to resort to any and everything.”

It might be too much to say that Trump has become a Bannon man, but it is also perhaps not entirely false. But Trump is no more who he says he is than Jackson is in Republican myth.

And Trump is at least a great a threat to the Supreme Court as David Crockett imagined Jackson to be, and no less a threat to the “whole power of the general government” that Trump’s own Van Buren, Steve Bannon, has vowed to destroy. ....

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