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Honestly with Bari Weiss
Historian David Brown offered commentary on Andrew Jackson's character, his background, and the irony that Jackson, despite being a frontier aristocrat, would recognize a class consciousness in some of Donald Trump's rhetoric.
This is historian David Brown, author of The First Populist, The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson. Of course, this is ironic, because Jackson was a frontier aristocrat, and Donald Trump is a billionaire...
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Historian David Brown offered commentary on Andrew Jackson's character, his background, and the irony that Jackson, despite being a frontier aristocrat, would recognize a class consciousness in some of Donald Trump's rhetoric.
This is historian David Brown, author of The First Populist, The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson. Of course, this is ironic, because Jackson was a frontier aristocrat, and Donald Trump is a billionaire.
It did not cost him votes though in the West, probably parts of the East as well, like much of upstate New York or Pennsylvania. I think that these communities, they recognized that in the West, customs were different, that amenities were different, and Jackson and Rachel, they did what they did because that's how people in the West lived, which is not knowingly bigamy.