I have my opinions on who’s to blame, but damn, we’re at a peak time of American prosperity and power and affluence, and we have a bunch of political pygmies bitch- (and bastard)-slapping each other.
Is this the worst political class in our history? Since the 1850s?
Just SMDH. Rise above people.
But then I run across this by John Quincy Adams biographer James Traub:
Is this the worst political class in our history? Since the 1850s?
Just SMDH. Rise above people.
But then I run across this by John Quincy Adams biographer James Traub:
John Adams’s rivals accused him of trying to restore monarchic rule; and when Adams’s son, John Quincy Adams, served as president, both his great rival, Andrew Jackson, and Vice President John C. Calhoun insisted that he was planning to subvert the Constitution and impose dictatorial rule. Adams and his allies were convinced with almost equal certainty that Jackson, if elected, would destroy the Union. The concept of legitimate difference of opinion was very slow to take hold.
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