Some of these views come from writers like Anders Stephanson, Frederick Merk, and Thomas Hietala. First of all, we have to start with Thomas Hietala. Hietala argues that as the idea of ​​Manifest Destiny gained popular support in the South, it would make sense, both intellectually and economically, to bring into play a kind of messianic imagery, outside the concept . Hietala believes that the world's progress rested on American progress and that Europeans were doing an injustice to their people by discouraging American expansion. Hietala also takes another view, arguing that the Polk and Tyler administrations were hypocritical and imperialistic in shoving the Mexican government and withdrawing over the Oregon issue with Great Britain. “To reconcile American imperialism with an extremely favorable national image, the notion of manifest destiny is often passed over in silence” (Hietala,