What Trump Gets Right—and Progressives Get Wrong—About Andrew Jackson by Andrew Exum

What Trump Gets Right—and Progressives Get Wrong—About Andrew Jackson by Andrew Exum

This is why Trump is not wholly wrong, albeit in his rambling way, when he speaks of Jackson saving the Union—not during the Civil War, of course, but three decades earlier. That was no small achievement. It was, indeed, the ultimateachievement of the founding fathers and the generation that followed them. Contemporary progressives, however, apparently see little to celebrate in such achievements. And if Jackson has fallen out of popular favor among the elites, well, the University of Virginia among others should be growing uneasy, because it’s only a matter of time before Jefferson, Madison, and many others also fall from grace.

Self-awareness just makes me happy.