Opinion of Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis is quite literally the only good thing he did.  His crank fiscal policy destroyed the economy; and I suppose he wasn't much worse than most of his contemporaries vis-a-vis Indian Removal but it was still morally abhorrent; I have to believe that John Quincy Adams would have done a better job of respecting native rights.

And he also brought about an obnoxious quasi-populist strain in American politics which can best be described as a celebration of ignorance and a tarring of so-called "coastal elites" (back then it was New England) as less than fully American because they value things like knowledge and reflection.

Ugh, I loathe Andrew Jackson.  Second worst president after Andrew Johnson.