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Originally Posted by Frownland
Politics became too much of a watercooler discussion under Trump's presidency for it to get too lopsided imo.
My surface level google search didn't turn up much, but how controversial was the Trail of Tears at the time?
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Jackson’s refusal to follow a Supreme Court ruling was more controversial than the mistreatment on Native Americans. Jackson was fantastic at selling anything as humanitarian. There was a kernel of truth in the argument that leaving the Cherokee in Georgia was indeed a de facto death sentence. The typical mostly apolitical white person was either indifferent or vaguely in favor of measures that made them less likely to encounter dangerous Indians. Even though it was a different time and place hysteria over events like the Enoch Brown school massacre still reverberated. And it wasn’t like today where people actually saw footage of what was really going on.