After he died all that fear and anger about him unleashing a wave of populist tyranny across the nation - founding the Whig Party to just be "anti-Jacksonian" etc - went away They put his face on the $20 and whatnot
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Gee. Let's hope we can thwart any repeat of that dynamic.
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he WAS the worst president
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The example I always go to is Richard Nixon. And not because of Watergate. Far from "healing the nation," pardoning him gave the tacit greenlight to future Republicans that committing treason to win elections would have no consequences.https://politi.co/2VjVdvr
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For very different reasons though! He became less controversial because the Jacksonian project of populist settlement was the American future.
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