Cuckservatives Celebrate Harriet Tubman Replacing Andrew Jackson On $20 Bill

Here is a small sample of the effeminate virtue-signaling from #TruConservative pundits that unfolded this afternoon on Twitter when the news was announced that Harriet Tubman was replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill:

The pundits who tweeted above write for National Review, RedState, The Federalist, The Week, The Blaze, The Weekly Standard and Commentary.

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National Review has published a think-piece:

“Jackson was a major influence in turning the federal government into an engine of partisan patronage, setting the model for client-based governing that the Democratic party in particular has followed ever since. And his demagogy and politics of grievance remain dangers to this day. The Jacksonians are gone from the Democratic party now — Jim Webb was the last man to turn out the lights on his way out — but the Donald Trump phenomenon has underlined the extent to which they are no friend to principled conservatism, any more than Jackson himself was. …”

The Jacksonians “are no friend to principled conservatism” and “his demagogy and politics of grievance remain dangers to this day.” In other words, all those Scots-Irish voters in the South in places like Jacksonville, FL or Jackson County, AL or Jackson, MS are a threat to #TruConservatism. So let’s thumb them in the eye.

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From Leon Wolf of RedState:

“There are so many figures who were central to our great Civil War, both in the military sense (like Grant) and the political sense (like Lincoln). But the Civil War was, at bottom, a spiritual fight. It was won on the battlefields of Shiloh and Gettysburg, but these battles would never have been fought if not for the inspirational figures like Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Tubman’s character, honor, bravery and ferocity symbolized the plight of the American slave, and her example helped paved the way for the end of the institution.

Even as a resident of Nashville, home of Andrew Jackson, I do not feel angered by his removal from United States currency. I feel Jackson has perhaps been judged unduly harshly by history, as he is often judged by the standards of decency that are prevalent today, rather than by comparison to the standards of decency that prevailed in his day. If Abraham Lincoln were treated this way by history, he would be known today as a virulent racist. But Jackson, unlike some of his other contemporaries, has never been able to shed the stain of the Trail of Tears from his legacy, even though he by all accounts is largely responsible for the shape of the modern Presidency. Certainly, he is less instrumental to the foundation of this nation than was the great Alexander Hamilton. And according to early speculation, he will not be removed altogether from the bill in any case, but merely demoted to the back. …”

Did you know that John Brown is an “inspirational” conservative figure?

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The Federalist is signaling even harder against the Jacksonian populist threat:

“In the name of national unity, it seems obvious that Andrew Jackson should go. The liberal reasons to throw him over are obvious enough. But there is also a raft of reasons why conservative people should sacrifice Old Hickory.

Already, enterprising minds are realizing how fun it would be to cut loose altogether from the hidebound traditionalism of dead presidents and solemn monuments. In the interest of breaking up “the whiteness and straightness of the history most of us grew up with,” New York’s Christopher Bonanos proposes that each bill be made “thematic,” pairing stubbornly persistent presidents with interesting, important, and inclusive figures from throughout American life. As precedent he cites the delightful diversity of bills of yore. …

But even conservatives have justifiable self-interests and right now the best case for booting Jackson is two words long: Donald Trump. Now that many on the Right believe a crass and misguided populism is in real danger of destroying the Republican Party, stripping the populists of Jackson is more than a retaliatory stick in the eye. It is a reminder that if Jackson was bad, at least he was a proper leader in the primal sense, as a military man.

Key to “Jacksonianism”—a point often lost in the present-day melee—is the idea that warriors ought to have a greater say. There’s a principled case for that viewpoint, but it is light years away from today’s pseudo-Jacksonianism. Here conservatives’ self-interest dovetails with the national interest.

Most conservatives will immediately understand there are virtues to a more military society that are not to be found in a merely more militaristic one. Militant populism that comes from people with no military experience is all but guaranteed to be dumb and dangerous in a way warriors are not.

You can see this in our police departments, where veterans in law enforcement are often apt to view their jobs in less theatrical or performative ways than macho civilians playing army on the force. Above all you can see it in the way we turn everything, rhetorically, into an “all-out war”—an absurdity for anyone who has actually seen even minor combat. Imagine how bad Jackson would have been without the discipline of having served.

Conservative, liberal, or neither, ridding the $20 of Jackson ought to pierce the fog of Trumpism—not only by rebuking a populist icon, but by reminding the populists that their militant vitriol is too lacking in martial virtue. In that sense, the proper presidential symbol of a politics more military isn’t hard to find. He’s graced our currency before—from 1971 to 1978, on the silver dollar.

For the good of the country, let’s replace Andrew Jackson with Dwight Eisenhower.”

It is spelled out more clearly here: rebuke the Jacksonian populists who voted for Trump by trashing their hero Andrew Jackson. They’re not #TruConservatives anyway.

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12 Comments

  1. Remember to write something wonderful on the new bill. It will have to continue to offend or be taken out of circulation.

  2. I saw that Curt Shilling got fired for saying something bad about a ‘transsexual’, the madness seems to have no bounds. Shit, that is an ugly colored woman.

  3. If they were really honest about what they’re doing they would put a picture of Belial, or some other devil figure on the back of the twenty, to go along with this infernal nigger woman on the front.

  4. This was why Paul Kersey banned me. I explained to him that Black Run America or BRA is a false narrative that it is more like Jew Run America with some Black stooges out in front. You take away Jewish Money, Jewish laws, Jewish Lawyers, Jewish civic groups, the Negroes would be back at 1860 level in a year, They cannot sustain anything on their own and basically without DER JUDE they are utterly powerless and harmless to us. Every single time a Negro kills a white remember this, WITHOUT THE JEWS HE WOULDN’T DARE SPEAK TO A WHITE MAN IN A DISRESPECTFUL TONE.

  5. As I have said on 10 other posts and I will say it again, that so many years have passed and so many children have been educated in our moron factories re:public schools that people think changing a picture from Jackson to Tubman is no different than putting up a new poster on the wall of your bedroom.

    The real problem is that as years go by and you get away from things, the importance decreases and the how and why becomes forgotten. My gr gr gr gr Grandfather was born in 1815 he was thirteen when Andrew Jackson became President, he died in 1905 at 90 yrs when Teddy Roosevelt won his full term. My grandpa who just died knew his great uncle, my gr gr gr gr grandfather’s son who was over 90 when he knew him and he was still strong and told him stories about the old times. You see the frontier, the war, all of this was still real 80 years ago. Ask yourself is it real anymore? The answer is yes if you are a traditionalist, no if you are the average moron.

    In 1940 no one would have dared beat up someone for flying a Confederate flag, it was part of history, By 1956 every single documented veteran of the war was dead, last documented Confederate Veteran was Pleasant Crump he died on the last day of the year 1951. Last Yankee vet died in 1956. There were probably at least 10 more Confederates still alive after Mr. Crump, but they were unverified. Remember Richmond burned.

    The Civil Rights Movement could not happen until all of the Confederate Veterans were dead. The full court Communist press of Obama couldn’t happen until all the anti-Communists were dead. It is just like the Bible says A NEW GENERATION ROSE UP WHO KNEW NOT GOD. KNEW NOT THEIR HISTORY. Without someone alive to tell the other side, all you have is liars to convince you that the New History is the real history.

  6. This is a dedication I am sending out to the Next President of the Confederacy Hunter Wallace.

  7. Maybe there is an inside joke there somewhere. Jackson would have hated his picture printed on what amounts to counterfeit currency from a national central bank.

    Harriet Tubman was a slave, so maybe they are kind of saying you are still slaves.

  8. Napoleon said,”Never interrupt the enemy when he’s making a mistake.” This is their money not ours. If it becomes too offensive to Whites they will stop using it, and then the enemy will have nothing.

  9. It’s funny to hear white nationalists whine about this. You think you’re fighting the federal government like she did, and all you’re really doing is playing on your computers.

  10. She fought the federal government and you all don’t like her because she’s black…and you wonder why no one takes you seriously.

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