It's enough to make a politician nervous, these historic similarities.
Established politicians dismissed his candidacy: Former President Thomas Jefferson called Jackson “one of the most unfit men I know of” for the presidency.That's a little more serious a charge than "dabbling into witchcraft." Or being able to see Russia from one's house. Not that it mattered; as you know, Jackson was in fact elected, and proceeded to institute a number of populist reforms.
Jackson’s campaign responded with charges that the political establishment had become a corrupt and unresponsive elite. Only an outsider such as he, Jackson insisted, could bring to bear the common sense and virtue of the common people.
Events proved that no one liked Jackson — except the voting public....
The Jacksonians charged that Adams was an effete intellectual and questioned his Christian faith.
The Adams campaign responded by revealing a variety of skeletons in Jackson’s closet — everything from a man he had killed in a duel to six soldiers he had executed when they went AWOL after the War of 1812.
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