Dan P. McAdamsThinkers

Andrew Jackson is a wild-haired mountain man who channeled the crude sensibilities of the masses.

Andrew Jackson is considered by many to be an angry populist. He was called 'king mob' for his perceived demagoguery.

Andrew Jackson is feared by his detractors as a popular strongman.

Andrew Jackson is inspiring to the common man because he himself was a common man, having risen from abject poverty to the presidency .

Andrew Jackson is responsible for mobilizing the masses such that the throngs of everyday people who admired him could themselves be said to belong to history, in that they partake of the grand, of a wondrous, epic, coming of democracy.

Andrew Jackson is similar to trump in that he exhibited extroversion and social dominance, volatile temper, shades of narcissism, and populist authoritarian appeal.

Andrew Jackson is successful in dramatically expanding the power of the presidency partly due to his ability to regulate his anger and use it strategically to promote his agenda.

Authoritarianism is also associated with suspiciousness of the humanities and the arts, and with cognitive rigidity, militaristic sentiments, and Christian fundamentalism.

Authoritarianism is associated with prejudice against a wide range of 'out-groups,' including homosexuals, african Americans, immigrants, and muslims.

Authoritarianism is grounded in a mandate to ensure the security, purity, and goodness of the in-group to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out.

Donald Trump is a classic narcissist whose language is dominated by self-reference. Even his remarks at his father's funeral stood out in that they were not about memories of fred trump but centered around fred's endorsement of donald.

Donald Trump is a germaphobe, repulsed by bodily fluids who appeals to an ancient fear of contagion, which analogizes out-groups to parasites, poisons, and other impurities.

Donald Trump is a man for whom 'the deal' serves as his ‘personal schema' or the model of interaction that permeates his thoughts and through which he comes to know the world around him.

Donald Trump is a man for whom anger serves as the emotional core around which his personality constellates. Anger lies at the heart of his charisma and permeates his political rhetoric.

Donald Trump is a narcissist who attaches his name to nearly everything he has touched, from casinos to steaks, to a so-called university that promised to teach students how to become like donald trump.

Donald Trump is a serial liar. Only 2 percent of his claims are true, 7 percent are mostly true, 15 percent are half true, 15 percent are mostly false, 42 percent are false, and 18 percent are ?pants on fire'.

Donald Trump is incapable of self-reflection: he is an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.