We really don’t talk about Andrew Jackson enough. In The End of the Myth, Grandin explains how aghast Jackson was to be asked for a passport, especially in front of enslaved people. He saw it as his right as a sovereign white citizen to go where he wanted, no restrictions.

This is literally suburbanite petite bourgeois protestation to social distancing...history doesn’t repeat itself exactly but it sure does rhyme.

Also the sociopathy of settler colonialism isn’t a weird offshoot that came about when Puritans came in search for freedom

It’s written into the code. You have to kill empathy, compassion and general human decency to think you’re entitled to land that’s already occupied.

“Jacksonians saw freedom as freedom from restraint”

There’s a reason that oaf in the White House feels a kinship of sorts with Andrew Jackson. The dots are to be connected!