lincoln's election caused the civil war that van buren had hoped to avoid because of van buren's own system. lincoln comes in one of the first things he notices he has an army of job seekers lining up down the street. at the time, he ran the government are you ready for this? with two secretaries. lincoln ran the whole government with two secretaries. literally people could come inside the white house, they were just in there and form a long line all the way down the block waiting to talk to the president about jobs. when he wasn't busy fighting a war, you know? lincoln could not deal with the spoils swamp. his first job was to deal with the slave swamp. he cannot needed the spoils want to defeat the slave swamp. which he did. he was the only of the six presidents to be completely successful and have school. he did defeat the slave swamp. but the spoils swamp was still around, and it continued to grow. it actually got worse. after the civil war, you had all of these veterans who are now claiming benefits by riding the congressman. i was in the civil war! i need all these benefits. yo

so lincoln's election caused the civil war that van buren had hoped to avoid because of van buren's own system. lincoln comes in and one of the first things he notices he has all these army of job seekers lining up down the street at the time. he ran the government you ready for this with two secretaries. lincoln ran the whole government with two secretaries and literally people could come inside the white house and they just stand there and form a long line all the way down the block waiting to talk to the president about jobs, you know when he wasn't busy and fighting a war, you know. and so lincoln could not deal with the with the spoils swamp because his first job was to deal with the slave swamp. he kind of needed the spoil swamp to defeat the slave swamp, which he did. he was the only of the six presidents took b completely successful in his goal. he did defeat the slave swamp, but the spoiled swamp was still around and it continued to grow it actually got worse after the civil war because you had all these veterans who were now claiming benefits by writing their congressman sayin

he said at one point to martin van buren who was his vice president and later successor. he said the bank wants to kill me. i will kill the bank. so you can see the rhetoric was pretty raw and the idea behind this was unlike today where? we've kind of forgotten. that it's not you know the poor people who are the takers and in those days men like jackson worried. it was the wealthy and the powerful who are going to erode the foundations of democracy by taking from the lower classes or or the concentration of wealth and power in an institution like the second bank of the united states was a threat to democracy very much. it's kind of forgotten and that really we flip the continues into the late 19th century early 20th century when you have that time monopoly movement anti-trust movement, which is both parties, but democrats are probably strongest in that because they're not really the big business party, which is a fear that a lot of americans have that the government will be used to help private interests and we still think about that today. we're when there's debates happ

he said at one point, martin van buren, who was his vice presidential successor, he said the bank wants to kill me, i will kill the bank. so you can see the rhetoric was pretty raw back then. >> and the idea behind this was, unlike today where we've kind of forgotten that is not, you know, the poor people who are the takers -- in the day those days, men like jackson, it was the wealthy and the powerful who were going to erode the foundations of democracy by taking from the lower classes or the concentration of wealth and power in an institution like the second act in the united states was a threat to democracy. >> very much so. >> kind of forgotten that. >> and that really, that continues until the late 19th, the 20th century when you have to have a monopoly over the anti-trust movement which is both parties. the democrats are probably strongest in that because they're not really the big presidents party. which is a fear that a lot of americans have, that the government will be used to help private interests, and we still think that today. when there's debates happening in congress, at