Conversely, it is important to recognize the other side of Jacksonian Democracy. The other side of Jacksonian Democracy paints a more negative picture. This negative picture too can be linked together with the President Trump’s administration. Taesuh Cha contents, “Jacksonian worldview has been analyzed as an illiberal, populist ideological system that stems from the early modern inter-civilizational conflict between European settlers and Native Americans. This tradition imaginatively constructs the United States as “a folk community bound together by deep cultural and ethnic ties…definition of populism as an ideology which pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous others helps us understand Jacksonianism as a variant of the U.S. populist movement” (Cha 85). With a modern …show more content…
In particular, during bad economic times, the tradition’s Hobbesian understanding of the anarchical world” (Cha 85). What this means for foreign policy, is how a country reacts. It also explains how a country frames their underlying reasoning. Within Jacksonian Democracy Taesuh Cha endorses, “Although Jacksonians are usually isolationist and are not concerned much about international affairs, once provoked, they are known for their very militaristic, merciless approaches to international conflicts” (Cha 86). This result may not be what is best for the United States. This realist approach could propel the United States into conflicts. A point furthered by James Willick explaining, “that a shortsighted focus on security over values and national interest over multilateralism risks damaging American interests in the long run. But there's another, more serious risk: that the impulse to increase America's military commitment in so many chaotic and disorderly places cannot hold the support of Jacksonian