I've always said that Trump using Andrew Jackson for his Prsidencial symbolism was historically bizarrre. The 1830s ancestor of Trumpism was Jackson's arch-enemy John C. Calhoun. Matthew Whitaker, actually supports state nullification of federal law. (Andrew Kaczynski,
Whitaker said he supports state's rights to nullify federal law CNN 11/10/2018)
It doesn't get more Calhounian than that. (Cody Carlson, This week in history:
John C. Calhoun and the Nullification Crisis Deseret News 12/17/2012;
Nullification crisis Encyclopaedia Britannica 10/26/2018)
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John C. Calhoun (1783-1850) (CC-PD) |
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