"Nothing Short of Ethnic Cleansing"

"More than 46,000 Native Americans experienced this horror brought about by Jackson’s brand of populism. While Jackson did not personally supervise the extermination of tribes, according to Watson, he 'encouraged the atmosphere of callousness and indifference to Indian welfare that culminated in those deaths.'

"Jackson 'always insisted he was not an Indian hater, he just felt the presence of Indians on land that ought to be white people’s was a barrier to the development of the white country,' Watson said."

Ari Rabin-Havt in The American Prospect argues that the Democratic Party should stop honoring Andrew Jackson.