The moment Donald Trump rode down an escalator to announce his candidacy, the D.C. establishment and Beltway courtesans laughed at an improbable campaign - a campaign that baffles them to this day. They ask themselves, how could the American people vote this orange clown into office? The answer is quite simple: with enthusiasm.
We’re tired of all of these self-appointed lords and masters - along with their propagandist in the media - telling us what’s best for the country. For eight, long years, they laughed at our protestations, and told us we were a nation in decline and deserved it. These task-masters determined, we citizens are to be ruled by a Clinton archipelago of city-states in a sea of red. We were - and still are - nothing to these people. They were shocked to find out sheep have teeth.
Donald Trump understood what was happening. He embraced our country as understood from our founding: this is the United States of America, not the Federal Government of America. And with that, he won the majority of Electoral College votes.
Two months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy, I wrote a blog post that the country needed another Andrew Jackson, because the winner of this primary was going to face a cacophony of vitriol and lies that would subsume a regular human being. Holy cow, I couldn’t believe how right I was, and thank God, Donald Trump has a streak of Jackson in him.
Jackson and Trump have a lot in common. Both of these men are fighters. They have a style that is confrontational, abrasive and offensive to the denizens of the D.C. salons; yet, is appealing to a coalition of American voters. Here is an excerpt from Albion’s Seed describing Andrew Jackson’s coalition:
The Jacksonian coalition was built upon principles which most Americans accepted, but many voters were deeply troubled by the behavior of President Jackson himself - a political style characterized by intensely personal leadership, charismatic appeals to his followers, demands for extreme personal loyalty, and a violent antipathy against all who disagreed with him. This style of leadership had long been rooted in the political folkways of the backcountry, but it was alien to other American cultures.
President Jackson had his own kind of deep state he had to deal with. He refused to renew the charter of Nicholas Biddle’s “Monster Bank” causing a general uproar amongst the elite. He defied Supreme Court rulings such as McCullogh v. Maryland and Worcester v. Georgia that outraged the moral supremacists of New England. Jackson ruffled a lot of feathers, and his constituents loved it. Here is another excerpt from Albion’s Seed:
During Jackson’s presidency, voting returns were mainly regional in nature. Patterns of partisan allegiance to the Jacksonian Democratic Republicans and anti-Jacksonian National Republicans in 1828 and 1832 were very similar to those in the early republic. Jackson was deeply distrusted in greater New England and in the Delaware Valley. He was generally supported in central and western Pennsylvania, in the Mississippi Valley, the coastal south and highland south. These regional patterns were so strong that in 1828 Jackson carried the electoral votes of every southern and western state, and lost virtually all of New England.
That sounds a bit like today. Democrats must keep in mind that Americans are not a homogenous people. Our culture and values differ from state to state; county to county; and yes, city to city. That is why I cringe when I hear people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi declare our “common American values.” I, and millions of other Americans, have nothing in common with those two or the people who elected them. President Jackson understood these sectional differences and I believe President Trump does too. Here is an excerpt from Old Hickory’s farewell address:
In a country so extensive as the United States and with pursuits so varied, the internal regulations of the several States must frequently differ from one another in important particulars; and this difference is unavoidably increased by the varying principles upon which the American colonies were originally planted; principles which had taken deep root in their social relations before the Revolution, and, therefore, of necessity influencing their policy since they became free and independent states, But each state has an unquestionable right to regulate its own internal concerns.
This is contrary to Progressive ideology. To them, States are not free and independent. They are to be coerced and ruled. That’s why the Electoral College has to be destroyed and men like Donald Trump and his voters must be outfitted into a scold’s bridle. Progressives have determined this rebellion must not become a full-blown revolution; a revolution that restores our federalist system.
I’m afraid we’ll never see another Jackson or Trump within my lifetime. These kind of men are a rare breed and that is a sad truth.
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