History Extra for October 21, 2021
It was President Andrew Jackson in the 1830s who first defended the so-called spoils system for political appointments. He argued that a man needed to feel that his vote mattered to him personally, so that turning out of office members of the opposition and installing your own supporters would actually strengthen, rather than weaken, democracy.
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