Trump and his advisors like Steve Bannon lionize Andrew Jackson as a model for defiance of Supreme Court rulings on Native expulsion (referencing Jackson's 'let them enforce it' response), as a strong executive willing to expand presidential powers when the presidency had relatively few powers, and as a harbinger of executive overreach that Trump admires.
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“he said, "Okay, that's fine. let them enforce it." ...they see him as you know an example of an early executive who was interested in expanding the powers of the presidency”
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