WI: Jacksonian Dictatorship

I've been speculating about his on a few other threads. Would it be possible, with a PoD no earlier than the Revolutionary War, for Andrew Jackson to establish himself as a dictator?

My logic for this is that Jackson's character was quite autocratic, even as he was a champion of the people (quite like Hugo Chavez actually). He appointed an administration of cronies, and worked through the people rather than through institutions of governance. As well, many of his decisions increased his own power at the expense of independent institutions (the Bank War, the Nullification Crisis, etc). Finally, he gained access to politics through service in the military, where he was a popular war hero and general. Is it possible, with a different political climate, for Jackson to have become a Bonaparte-style military dictator?
 
What "independent institution" had its power eroded by Jackson during the Nullification Crisis? Calhoun's South Carolina?
 
What "independent institution" had its power eroded by Jackson during the Nullification Crisis? Calhoun's South Carolina?

Congress, the Bank of the United States (which he eliminated), the civil service... need I go on?

Specifically during the Nullification Crisis? He fought against states' rights, which may have needed doing, but which strengthened the executive branch over the others, and federal power against state. Generally though, in his rhetoric he rejected the educated elites and their restrictions on democracy, which they believed helped prevent mob rule. If Jackson had grown up in an environment that claimed to be democracy, but was really more of a Federalist oligarchy, his disdain for the protected democracy of his time might have become disdain for democracy itself. He might have seen himself as replacing a corrupted "democracy" with a more egalitarian revolutionary state, led by himself as protector of the people's rights.
 
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Sure, if the tradition becomes that Generals serve as POTUS (Washington, St. Clair, Wayne, Dearborn, Lewis, etc. and I'm just throwing out random names here) and the OTL constitutional separation of military & civilian power is butterflied away and the supremecy of the presidency over congress and the courts becomes firmly established before he assumes the presidency, then it's possible. Otherwise, he wouldn't be nominated or elected, and if he were, the napoleonic complex you ascribe to Jackson would get him impeached and removed from office.
 
You'd have to set things back fairly far. Change the 1800 election, at least, and keep the Federalists in power longer. No Louisiana Purchase would be another good point, perhaps allowing for the US to join in one of the Wars of Xth Coalition. Another insurrection à la Shays' Rebellion or the Whiskey Rebellion. Basically you need to make early US history more like that of Argentina, or Mexico (or any of the former Spanish colonies really).
 
I've been speculating about his on a few other threads. Would it be possible, with a PoD no earlier than the Revolutionary War, for Andrew Jackson to establish himself as a dictator?

My logic for this is that Jackson's character was quite autocratic, even as he was a champion of the people (quite like Hugo Chavez actually). He appointed an administration of cronies, and worked through the people rather than through institutions of governance. As well, many of his decisions increased his own power at the expense of independent institutions (the Bank War, the Nullification Crisis, etc). Finally, he gained access to politics through service in the military, where he was a popular war hero and general. Is it possible, with a different political climate, for Jackson to have become a Bonaparte-style military dictator?

Yes, in fact there is a TL with it, written by General Finley.

The Federal Republic of America: sibling to a stillborn USA V 2.0
 
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