Summary: Populism’s resurgence has, as always, terrified our ruling elites and their servants. As usual with a grassroots-driven mass movement, it crude and nativist. Tapping America’s primal beliefs, it is racist (our original sin that has tainted almost everything from the Founding to the New Deal). But populism addresses ills in America that our leaders enjoy, so our political gurus work to keep you from understanding both populism and its latest expression via Donald Trump. This excerpt from Walter Russell Mead’s famous essay about Andrew Jackson is a first step to doing so. Note that it’s different than conservatism, despite what the press says.
From the early stirrings of his campaign, the similarities between Trump and Andrew Jackson were obvious — as seen in these superficial articles by PBS and The New York Post, and this recent one in the NYT. Trump’s isolationist foreign policy (but bellicose towards…
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