Trump Begins a Second Jacksonian Revolution

15,000 Cherokees protested an illegal treaty that forced them off their land to give to white occupants. Cherokees did not believe that they would be forced to move, until Jackson’s Federal troops and state militias put them in stockades.

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump are not just changemakers or disruptors but revolutionaries who campaigned to overthrow the established political apparatus (see The Return of a Demagogic Populist President after 200 Years ).

In their eyes, Jackson and Trump are leading a working-class movement to gain more power by dismantling government institutions. For Jackson, it was eliminating the institution of the National Bank, but Trump goes further; it is eliminating many federal agencies and departments.

As the president-elect Donald Trump selects his new cabinet and advisors, it is evident that he was truthful in promising to destroy what he considers the deep state (see How Trump Would Destroy the Deep State)

If approved by the Senate, Russell T. Vought will return as Trump’s first-term Director of the Office of Management and Budget. After Trump lost the election, Vought shaped Project 2025, a detailed guideline for deconstructing federal government services.

Unlike President Andrew Jackson’s administration, Trump has a consortium of conservative intelligentsia that drafted instructions on where his revolution must go to obtain political power. He will employ three main Jackson strategies to achieve that power: energize his voter base by beating up a weak enemy, use physical force to…