I had an epiphany on my frustration with the Democratic Party.

[bhikkhu]

20. I'd go back to Andrew Jackson

(though of course the monikers were different then). He held a violent contempt for Native Americans, especially any that were doing well, and a big part of his agenda was the Indian Relocation Act, to terminate all treaties east of the Mississippi, confiscate their property and ship them off to barren wastelands in the west. The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" was the most famous result of that, but a lot happened. The genocidal act was challenged, and the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional, but he went a head and did it anyway (that might be one of the reasons Trump admires Jackson so much).

What gets me is that there was strong opposition, and people campaigned on how heinous and wrong the act was and how much better they themselves were morally, but then even when they got back into power they did nothing. No land was returned, no people were made whole, there were no consequences for the genocidal act or for anyone involved in it, nothing was fixed.

Just saying, I wish things were different, but my expectations are low. If the next president just sits in the oval office and "isn't Trump", that's not sufficient; it's not even close.