Is Donald Trump a Jacksonian?

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Pork-barrel corporate welfare spending was the original scheme concocted by Alexander Hamilton in his quest to explode governmental power far beyond what the Constitution allowed for (along with a central bank, a large public debt, and protectionist tariffs).  Perhaps President Trump's thinking about this is clouded by the fact that he is a lifelong New Yorker.  Hamilton is to native New Yorkers what Lincoln is to natives of Illinois.

Andrew Jackson also actually paid off the national debt, something that no other president has done since or probably ever will.  President Trump, on the other hand, will probably not mention this fact in his discussions of Jackson in light of some of his grandiose spending proposals – for the military, the border wall, paid family leave, etc.

All in all, a good case can be made that Donald Trump is a Jacksonian – for the most part.  He is undoubtedly the one president who is most hated by the entrenched Washington political establishment since Jackson.  That in itself establishes a strong intergenerational kinship between the two presidents.
-Thomas DiLorenzo

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/thomas-dilorenzo/trump-jacksonian/