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Look this isn’t some crazy thing you can get mad at the words but Jackson did threaten to hang people so ya know that’s a little excessive.
Obama did it in his SOTU in 2010 albeit more so by going after the Supreme Court and then Republicans. Biden called MAGA Republicans a threat in a speech before Congress
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Good comp bringing up Jackson.
Both reflect a view that civil rights expansions were a threat to white political power.
But the mechanism is different:
Jackson used power aggressively, often behind the scenes.
He didn’t use the State of the Union itself to demean people in the chamber.
That’s the distinction.
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Not on par.
FDR pressure was intra-party + policy leverage.
This week’s SOTU includes direct, in-chamber language at the opposing party:
That’s not procedural pressure or post-speech protest.
That’s explicit, on-the-floor verbal targeting.
I can’t find another SOTU with this kind of direct, in-chamber language at the opposing party. That’s not ‘decorum slipping’. It's the President using the address to demean the opposition on the floor.