Lessons from history: If Andrew Jackson challenges you to a duel, don’t accept.
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http://thewayiheardit.rsvmedia.com/episode-149-broadswords-in-a-pit
from Mike Rowe’s podcast. interesting story of another president.
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
Jackson’s position on one Supremes decision.
izlamo delenda est …
Andrew Jackson was also Grand Master of Freemasons in Tennessee in 1822. (7:56)
https://thehermitage.com/history-at-home-with-bryan-gilley/
Is that a portrait of John Kerry?
Andrew Jackson was also the last honest Democrat, plus he had great hair.
The British army challenged him and got their butts handed to them!
Jackson was a reaction to the to the elites of the time giving the finger to the deplorables of the time. This is not new: this is the fundamental conflict of our history — The Boston-Philly-New York axis birthed the Revolution and then got their asses handed to them by their first contact with the British. And it was the irregular backwoods hunter-snipers and Southerners (with a little help from swamp borne mosquitoes) that bailed them out
Not everything Jackson did was great. His anti-elite recklessness, especially against the Bank of the United States caused a serious recession and gave birth to the only viable third party in our history, The Whigs. That’s gotta be a black mark against him
But then again … this whole experiment was new. We careened wildly back and forth between elitism and populism. There were no set boundaries, so it was a contest of wills. And Jackson was one willful son of a bitch
love it when ‘Old Hickory’ opened up the White House on Inauguration Day to the people (he claimed it was ‘their house’) … & ‘the people promptly bum-rushed the door & took every stick of furniture, all the curtains & rugs!
Bum Lives Matter!
btw, those ‘southern’ backwoods tactics were used in the Battle of Concord & more ‘victories’ by the British in the Battle of Breed’s Hill & they wouldn’t have had much of an army … they controlled the north because their navy controlled the coast, until the French contested them in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay … which won the War. (but that’s an argument for another day)