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Guy should just switch parties.

Via Politico:

Former Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb slammed criticism of Andrew Jackson in light of the Treasury Department’s announcement last week that it would replace the former president’s image on the $20 bill with that of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, suggesting that coverage of Jackson’s time as president has fallen prey to a culture of political correctness and a “myth of universal white privilege.”

Writing in an op-ed for The Washington Post published Sunday evening, the former Virginia senator criticized the newspaper itself for summing up Jackson’s “legendary tenure” as being “known primarily for a brutal genocidal campaign against native Americans.” That characterization, Webb wrote, “offers an indication of how far political correctness has invaded our educational system and skewed our national consciousness.”

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