He Was America’s Craziest President

The Crazy things President Andrew Jackson did

Andrew Jackson (Wikimedia Commons)

I look at Donald Trump and I see a jerk, a demagogue, an ignoramus. That definition, that of a jerk, demagogue and ignorant, was the one assigned at the time (quite precisely) to Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States and, probably, the founder of American democracy, which should not be confused with the…