Comparing the current presidential administration to the tenure of Andrew Jackson is not particularly original, but that does not mean that we can take in all the parallels at a glance. One of the strongest connections I see lies in the confusion over the basic nature or composition of the coalitions which brought either man to power. The interminable dispute over whether or not there was true working-class support for Jackson’s Democrats in the late 1820s and 1830s was perhaps the driving question of scholarship on that historical period from the publication of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s The Age of Jackson Read more