Bob Crawford
speaker
602 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Bob Crawford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What does he do?
He comes into office.
He fires all the civil servants.
He fires everybody in Washington that served under John Quincy Adams.
Installs all his people, all his loyalists.
And then he goes after the banking system, creating economic havoc in the country.
And he begins to overstep executive power, which at the time, you know, Congress was kind of always the dominant branch of government.
Even after Jackson, Congress reasserts themselves.
After Jackson, we don't have another two-term president until Lincoln.
It was Article I for a reason, Bob.
Article I for a reason.
But Jackson is overstepping.
And there's a lot of fear in the country.
And the fear over the overreach of executive power brings together an odd coalition of bedfellows to form an opposition party.
Because when Adams is serving in the Monroe administration, we were experiencing something we called the era of good feelings.
And that's what they called it at the time.
There was one political party.
The Federalists, the old Federalist Party of Washington and Adams had dissolved, and it was just the Democratic Republicans of Jefferson who existed.
Well, now, after Jackson wins the presidency, they call it the Democrats, the party formed, and I don't know how deep we want to go down the rabbit hole, but the party, really, the architect, the Karl Rove of that party is Martin Van Buren.
And it's Jackson at the helm and it's Jackson, the cult of personality, Jackson, the military hero, you know, the Jackson, the man on horseback.
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