By Burwell Stark
Since the start of his campaign, Newt Gingrich has cast himself as a man of the people and a Reagan Republican. Newt resembles a former president, all right, but it is not Reagan. Newt Gingrich seems to be a 21st-century return of President Andrew Jackson.
This thought first occurred to me in the aftermath of Gingrich's assertion that, as president, he would ignore the Supreme Court, a sentiment similar to a phrase attributed to Andrew Jackson: "[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." Eventually I saw five ways in which Gingrich is similar to Jackson. They are his: 1. ambition, 2. appeal as a populist, 3. history of dealing with the national debt, 4. judicial mistrust, and 5. belief in the supremacy of states' rights (when convenient).
Since the start of his campaign, Newt Gingrich has cast himself as a man of the people and a Reagan Republican. Newt resembles a former president, all right, but it is not Reagan. Newt Gingrich seems to be a 21st-century return of President Andrew Jackson.
This thought first occurred to me in the aftermath of Gingrich's assertion that, as president, he would ignore the Supreme Court, a sentiment similar to a phrase attributed to Andrew Jackson: "[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." Eventually I saw five ways in which Gingrich is similar to Jackson. They are his: 1. ambition, 2. appeal as a populist, 3. history of dealing with the national debt, 4. judicial mistrust, and 5. belief in the supremacy of states' rights (when convenient).
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