The spoils system propagated like a pernicious weed. Leaders of the Whig Party denounced Democratic Party patronage, but practiced it themselves when they came to power in the 1840s, as did the ...

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform.

This became known as the “spoils system.” Like Trump, Jackson also had a version of the “deep state” that he opposed. He claimed that the appointment process was aristocratic and blocked ...

That, to me, is what should be the overall narrative for people. We had a system 140 years plus ago called the spoils system.

Trump wants the federal government to be more immediately responsive to his political aims, and there have been comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson.

Ah yes, those were the good old days when an American president could do what he wanted with the federal workforce. That was George Washington in the 1790s, who followed what the English colony ...

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This so-called “spoils system” — a term dating back to Andrew Jackson’s administration — empowered the president’s allies, regardless of their qualifications. “The idea was that the ...

As the money inside the game of basketball explodes into a multi-billion dollar industry, the players - at every level - want their share of the spoils. And as every layer of the system becomes ...

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