...and many would argue that Wilson screwed us with his WWI actions. He ran on a platform that he would keep us out of the war. Then we ended up at war anyway. If the US had stayed out of WWI, there was a chance that there wouldn’t have been a WWII
The 1916 election was entirely about staying out of the war. Roughly sixty days after the results...the plans team were ready to go with the war plans in early 1917. Public sentiment really was dazed over this.
Oddly, we go back 1912, and Teddy’s little tirade against Taft that created this mess. Teddy could have easily sat out 1912, and came back in 1916 to run again...winning easily as the “war-president”.