This archive report was first published on 30 November 2019.
Published on November 30, 2019, a date that highlights the parallels between Donald Trump and Andrew Johnson, the 17th US President who was impeached in 1868.
Johnson's and Trump's concept of American nationalism is narrow, parochial, and authoritarian. Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, which guarantees equality before the law to all persons and citizenship to all born in the United States. Trump has threatened to revoke its constitutional guarantee of national birthright citizenship and have the entire amendment overturned.
Both Johnson and Trump have used derogatory language for people of color. Johnson's highhanded actions and disregard of Congress led to Thomas Nast's famous
