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

John Tyler on vetoing Henry Clay's bank bill

The power of Congress to create a national bank to operate over the Union has been a question of dispute from the origin of the Government.... [M]y own opinion has been uniformly proclaimed to be against the exercise of any such power by this Government.

~ John Tyler, 10th president, August 16, 1841

John Tyler (1841-1845)
1938

Tom DiLorenzo on president John Tyler's place in history

In his book Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, Ivan Eland ranked John Tyler as the best American president of all time.  (The Marxist Left that dominates the American academic history profession usually ranks him near the bottom).  Eland’s ranking is so at odds with the hard-Left history profession because their criteria give higher scores to presidents who spend and tax the most, consolidate the most power in Washington, D.C., oppress civil liberties the most, centrally plan the economy the most, and are the most belligerent in foreign wars.  Hence, Lincoln, FDR, and Wilson have long been at the top of their ratings (although Wilson is recently out of favor after the historians finally acknowledged that he re-segregated the U.S. military).

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