Blue State Blues: A Lesson in Populism from Andrew Jackson for Donald Trump
Jackson’s populism grew from love. However flawed his policies, he loved his country not just for what it could be, but also for what it was.
Jackson’s populism grew from love. However flawed his policies, he loved his country not just for what it could be, but also for what it was.
“It’s important that our notes, our money … reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,” she said. “So we’re exploring ways to speed up that effort.”
President Joe Biden shuffled the decor in the Oval Office after former President Donald Trump left Wednesday, removing the bust of Winston Churchill and the painting of former populist Democrat President Andrew Jackson.
The Jackson, Mississippi, city council voted Tuesday to take down a City Hall monument of its namesake — Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States — by a vote of 5-to-1.
The Office of Inspector General has confirmed that the Trump administration did not delay the release of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, as was falsely speculated by the New York Times in June 2019.
Four individuals who allegedly attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson near the White House were charged Friday with the destruction of federal property, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Saturday.
Not only are these spoiled little brats entirely bereft of any remotely mature knowledge of history, they haven’t the faintest understanding of politics. Who should rule? Where do rights come from? What is freedom?
Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe who sponsored a 2003 law protecting federal monuments, called for the defense of Andrew Jackson’s statue.
The would-be statue-topplers know little or nothing about Andrew Jackson, the war hero who defended the nation with courage and resolve.
Trump on Tuesday repeatedly condemned the leftist mobs attacking historical monuments and rioting and looting. “Lock them up,” Trump repeated. “Yeah, lock them up.”
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) were on the streets of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday when they were nearly attacked by an autonomous zone protester.
Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, told a meeting of Democratic mayors on Tuesday morning that it was necessary not just to “defund the police,” but to “replace the police.”
A male protester at the “Black House Autonomous Zone” (BHAZ) outside St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday evening demanded the right to talk about his genitalia, accusing female activists of “body-shaming him.”
Tensions are escalating in the nation’s capital as protesters clash with U.S. Park Police and Metropolitan Police after attempting to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Park.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for rioters who attempted to pull down the Andrew Jackson statue near the White House on Monday evening to be locked up.
Vandals have spray-painted the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church a block away from the White House with “B-H-A-Z” for “Black House Autonomous Zone.”
Rioters attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park near the White House on Monday evening in Washington, DC, before being dispersed by police.
Arizona State Reps. Leo Biasiucci (R-5), Walt Blackman (R-6), and Frank Carroll (R-22) are pushing legislation to nullify any gun control that infringes on the Second Amendment.
The New York Times published an editorial that said U.S. law should be changed to prevent Pelosi from replacing an impeached President Trump.
Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandfather served in Major William Lauderdale’s Battalion of Tennessee Volunteer Militia when it fought two battles in Florida against the Seminoles.
The New York Times is no longer the “paper of record,” according to Donald Trump Jr., who reacted to the paper’s latest fake news story in a tweet posted Saturday afternoon.
Appearing Friday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2020 Democrat White House contender and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said events bearing President Thomas Jefferson’s name should be renamed, calling it the “right thing to do.”
President Donald Trump celebrated President Andrew Jackson on Monday in the former president’s home state of Tennessee.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted President Donald Trump would be re-elected and likened the current effort of building a majority he has underway to that of former President Andrew Jackson. “You see more jobs
President Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson share many similarities, said Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade, drawing from his latest book “Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny.”
The prolific Broadway composer Michael Friedman died on Saturday, Sep. 9, at the age of 41 from complications of HIV/Aids.
Despite the media and their Democratic counterparts working full speed to spin the lie that threats of political violence are on the rise in a polarized Trump era – with the Confederate monuments, they claim, serving as an “obvious flashpoint” – the events that took place in Charlottesville on August 12, and what President Trump said or didn’t say in the days after, did not lead to this.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Activists with Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the organization Take ‘Em Down NOLA stormed the French Quarter’s iconic monument to President Andrew Jackson, demanding it be removed from the public square.
An era has come to an end at Fox News. The departure, last year, of Roger Ailes, its founder and CEO for two decades, and the departure, this year, of Bill O’Reilly, its biggest star for two decades, means that Fox will be changing. What’s said of politics is also true of TV: Personnel is policy. Tell me the names of those who are making the decisions about programming, and the names of those who are actually doing the shows, and I’ll tell you, in turn, about the network. But first, let’s take a closer look at the country—at least its presidential voting patterns—pre-Fox and post-Fox.
In his weekly address posted Saturday, President Donald Trump commemorated Andrew Jackson, the country’s seventh president, and Rosie the Riveter, the icon representing women that worked in manufacturing during World War II. Trump called on Americans to unite and find
President Donald Trump honored former President Andrew Jackson, celebrating his 250th birthday by visiting Hermitage, Jackson’s home in Nashville, Tennessee.
President Donald Trump will lay a wreath on former president Andrew Jackson’s grave on Wednesday before holding a rally for supporters in Nashville, Tennessee, according to CNN.
President Donald Trump has placed a painting of President Andrew Jackson in his Oval Office, in a symbolic affirmation of the populist similarities between the newly elected president and the former chief executive famed for his anti-establishment message in the 1820s.
It’s too early to know what will become of the Trump presidency, and yet we can already gain some clues as to where its leader is heading. And we can start by looking at the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, who is very much a model for the 45th president.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A group aligned with Black Lives Matter (BLM) again vandalized a New Orleans, Louisiana monument with fake blood.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A case which called out the hypocrisy of the City of New Orleans’ plan to remove four Civil War-related monuments but not to remove one honoring Democratic President Andrew Jackson was thrown out by a federal judge this week.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Following a march through New Orleans’ busiest street, the Black Lives Matter-aligned group ‘Take ‘Em Down Nola’ announced their list of “demands” from the City, saying they need $5 million annually to pay for education and salaries of African-American artists and historians.
A Black Lives Matter-aligned organization called ‘Take ‘Em Down Nola’ stormed New Orleans’ Andrew Jackson monument demanding all monuments related to the Civil War come down across the city. The monument which sits at the heart of the city’s historic French Quarter.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The ‘Take ‘Em Down Nola’ group, which has aligned itself with the Black Lives Matter movement, is now saying publicly they plan to tear down New Orleans’ most iconic monument in the city.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – An organization aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement is now threatening the City of New Orleans publicly, defacing historical monuments and demanding they be torn down.