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Step one for full dictatorship.
That's a few steps in.
Counterpoint: the US has been one step away from being outwardly fascist since at least Bush Jr.
Andrew Jackson was probably closer than Bush
this is a norms-pilled analysis, the material strength of the players was very different in that period. if states had actually opposed Jackson he'd have been fucked, the federals didn't have the strength to militarily overwhelm even one state, but none of the state governments, especially those concerned with the ruling, cared to.
by the time of bush (and this had been the case since truman or thereabouts), the federal government, and executive office had assumed absolute soverignty.
The thought occurred to me as soon as I made the comment lol Wilson was a better example.
Also I have no idea what norms-pilled mean. I have trouble keeping up with these things.
Edit: Jackson did plant the seeds though. The Nullification crisis was all about his willingness to use military force against South Carolina for opposing his tariff. Would he have been fucked if he had planned to do what he intended to? Henry Clay seemed to think that South Carolina would have been fucked had the compromise not pulled through.
norms-pilled just means the a focus on the forms of democracy to a neglect of the material situation--the constitutional/legal violations of jackson and trump are the same, but the latter has much more actual power.
but yes jackson planted the seeds, I think some of those fascists doing unitary executive theory use his example.
nullification is interesting because the prevailing interpretation is that Jackson avoided a civil war by his conduct, and whatever the man actually thought he was constrained by a political reality of the feds being weaker than states. Could 2,000 regulars have taken Charleston? yeah. could those 2,000 defeat NC, GA, whoever else decided the response to SC was an overreach? Mind the North did not like Jackson so much as Lincoln.
His naval solution to the Nullification, and the gracious settlement after was a very adept way to handle it while avoiding escalation
That isn't contrary to my point
Always has been