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How Donald Trump Has Changed The Way Politics Are Viewed

Donald Trump has joined the ranks of other political game changers.

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Throughout the history of U.S. Politics, there has been many moves and shakers that have changed the game. In each century, politics have been influenced in one way or many. President Jackson and President Reagan are strong examples of these influencers.

Now, because of the popular mass culture, Donald Trump, has join the ranks of these political game changers. These three men are similar in their own respectful disciplines. They are men of power, wealth, and fame.

President Jackson, was a wealthy Tennessee Lawyer, Major General in the War of 1812, and held as a national war hero. President Reagan started as a Hollywood Actor, then Governor of California. Donald Trump is an American Businessman and television personality.

With fame and power you are bound to step on a few toes and offending a groups of people; and their men did just that.

President Jackson called for the forceful political and military action to remove Native American Indians. These natives were withdrawn from homelands areas to the east of the Mississippi river. Jackson has been put on record of saying “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.”

President Reagan was not a big fan of civil rights leaders and never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights. He opposed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 (The Role of a Lifetime, by Lou Cannon, p. 520 , Jul 2, 1991). He also support the just say no campaign, which in retrospect targeted African Americans in urban areas.

Donald Trump has offended groups (Women, Mexicans, Muslims, The disabled, and the media) and has caused many caustic battles over religion, immigration and gender that animate his supporters andcapture headlines, with no apology.

These three men have also changed the political party system game by catering to particular niches. Party systems are known to basically favor different demographics of the time and they pick multiple ones to be substantial. Over time the parties have change who they appeal too.

President Jackson was against the Second Bank of the United States and pro-manifest destiny, which pushed the natives off their land.

President Reagan appealed to the whites who felt disenfranchised after the civil right movement. He denounced what he call the welfare state put on by the “New Deal” and caused many conservative and devoted evangelicals to fall to the republican party. The only difference in the Reagan era is both parties catered to the immigrants.

Donald Trump appeals to those against immigrant, Muslims, but he is also socially kind of in the middle -- or even the left -- on some issues, like LGBT community issues compared to other republican candidates or reaganite conservative.

Many candidate from both sides are starting to rejected to old system for better or for worse Trump poses many radical ideas, like how Jackson and Reagan did, but his is also setting a new precedent that is push America to think radically.

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