Why we got Andrew Jackson

T.R. Fehrenbach on the third wave of cross-Appalachian settlement: “The planter adopted, quietly, his pretensions to gentility; the strongly puritanical majority of the country studiously ignored the pretensions, and only became furious if they were flaunted in their faces.” – Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

Those who take status unto themselves and are not shy about letting us masses know who is boss also led to the election of Donald Trump.