PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS’ TOOL; Says When Bigots, Profiteers Get Control of Country They Select ‘Front Man’ to Rule DICTATORSHIP STRESSED Truman Tells Chicago Audience a Republican Victory Will Threaten U.S. Liberty TRUMAN SAYS GOP PERILS U.S. LIBERTY
New York Times headline October 26, 1948. Every Republican standard bearer is worse than Hitler in the eyes of the Democrats until the next one comes along.
A tradition with democrat supporters. Goes back to the election of 1800 when the Jefferson supporters trashed John Adams, admittedly not a great political candidate. Went on to a repeat performance when his son, John Quincy Adams ran against Andrew Jackson, a thoroughly immoral character. Almost every presidential election since has involved a democrat descent into the dirt with the exception of Kennedy in 1960, who carried some pretty heavy baggage himself.
Goes back to the election of 1800 when the Jefferson supporters trashed John Adams,
There was hair raising trashing on both sides.
Went on to a repeat performance when his son, John Quincy Adams ran against Andrew Jackson, a thoroughly immoral character.
Adams won the 1824 race through horse trading with Henry Clay who became his Secretary of State. Jackson condemned this as a Corrupt Bargain and stormed to victory in 1828, with vitriol on all sides.
Andrew Jackson, a thoroughly immoral character.
He wasn’t.
I suppose his treatment of Native Americans, his illegal attempt at marriage to an already married woman, his ham handed management of the National Bank abolition and his tendency to settle personal disputes by dueling don’t count? The fact that Ursuline Nuns prayed for his Victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1818 does not give him a pass
More than that, Jackson was our first demagogue president, exploiting the virtues of our national character for his own aggrandizement.