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Jake Auchincloss: “Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party was the forerunner of the…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 31:32

There's a reason that Donald Trump had the portrait of Andrew Jackson in his office in his first term is really, in a lot of ways, Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party was the forerunner of the MAGA movement. And what's fascinating to watch about that era, the 1830s and the 1840s, is how politicians tried to figure out how to counter Andrew Jackson and all the mistakes that they made. (31:32–31:37)

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Asserts that Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party is a precursor to the MAGA movement.

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