“Jackson is also the only president who ever had the USA at a surplus, not owing any money at all.”
Except that his policies set a trap for his successor, Martin Van Buren, as the economy collapsed almost immediately after his inauguration and didn’t recover for many years. The lack of a Central Bank made it impossible to fight the long, damaging recession.
‘Jackson had a very good record on supporting civil rights for Jews – it was the Jacksonian era when the last legal restrictions on our civil rights were removed (e.g. the famous “Jew Bill” in Maryland giving Jews political rights).’
Doesn’t make up for genocide against others. Property qualifications had been gone before Jackson became President — in Maryland it had been done in 1809. And the Maryland “Jew Bill” was also before Jackson was President — the debates in the Maryland legislature were on Federalist-Republican lines as the Jacksonian/National Republican division hadn’t really set in yet.
Grant was indeed an awful President. But he was merely incompetent. Jackson was evil and incompetent.