Tom DiLorenzo on Whig Party hatred towards John Tyler

John Tyler also became the first president to be subjected to Articles of Impeachment, which were filled with rather hilarious political bluster.  He was accused of “arbitrary and despotic abuse of the veto power”; “open hostility to the Legislative department of the Government,” as though that was a bad thing; and “vacillation, weakness, and folly,” among other absurdities.  The Articles of Impeachment were ultimately rejected.

You know John Tyler was a good man, and that Ivan Eland [author of Recarving Rushmore] is probably spot on in ranking him as America’s best president (he reduced the size of the army by one-third, among other things) since he elicited the hatred of such a cabal of political gangsters, rent seekers, idiots and tyrants led by Lincoln’s “beau ideal of a statesman” Henry Clay.

~ Tom DiLorenzo,  "The President Who Was Expelled from His Own Party," LewRockwell.com, February 8, 2020