“Like [Andrew] Jackson’s populism,” {Bannon} told the Hollywood Reporter, “we’re going to build an entirely new political movement.”
Newt Gingrich has compared Trump to Jackson for some time. Rudolph Giuliani declared on election night that it was “like Andrew Jackson’s victory. This is the people beating the establishment.” That may seem a comforting comparison, since it locates Donald Trump in the American experience and makes his election seem less of a departure.
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Jackson, like Trump, won over many white working-class voters, who brushed aside critics who warned that he was unstable and a would-be dictator. He maintained their loyalty even though, like Trump, he was of the elite. Though not born to wealth as Trump was, Jackson made his fortune on the early American frontier. He did not clear out Washington elites so much as bring a new coalition of elites to power: New York politicians and Pennsylvania businessmen allied with Southern slaveholders. Jackson tended to their special interests. He also used political patronage to stuff the government with Jackson loyalists. There is something Jacksonian both in Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington and his early moves to refill the swamp with wealthy friends, loyal supporters, and family members.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/trump-and-andrew-jackson/508973/
Other Trump allies and even Trump himself have made similar parallels in recent days and weeks. At a dinner Wednesday night honoring now-Vice President Pence, Trump himself said he was often told, “There hasn’t been anything like this since Andrew Jackson.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/21/donald-trump-embraces-a-democratic-presidential-icon-and-the-controversy-that-comes-with-him/?utm_term=.c619fd504caf
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