This is hands down the worst president in the American History.
Posted on 01/22/2017 6:59:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Inauguration Day 2017 has placed the U.S. on a new political and economic trajectory. President Donald Trump won the votes of the so-called Rust Belt, where workers and their children and grandchildren, who have been dispossessed and displaced by the economics of globalization, turned blue counties into red counties. Thus, in a legitimate sense, Trump's appeal to the "forgotten man" – so similar to Franklin D. Roosevelt's appeal to the same symbol – is valid. FDR's forgotten man was a composite of all those who were unemployed in the Great Depression who were "forgotten" in the sense that their plight was not being taken seriously by government.
Trump also appealed to another neglected constituency in our republic – namely, those disaffected by the intense political correctness attacks on individual freedom and, related to this, by attacks upon the sanctity of property and individual responsibility. In short, millions upon millions have become increasingly victims of federal government intrusion into their lives. The intrusions have come from excessive federal laws (e.g., Affordable Care Act), regulatory mandates by out-of-control bureaucracies, constitutional violations such as those presented by the implementation of Common Core, and encouragement of politically correct speech, which encouragement tends to undermine the First Amendment protections afforded all of us. The individuals harmed by these government trends also might aptly be called "forgotten men."
Yet, increasingly, Trump is being compared not to Roosevelt, but to Pres. Andrew Jackson, who served two terms from 1829 to 1837. TV commentators and supporters of Trump are happy to make this comparison. Andrew Jackson was also a president who gave voice to the views and aspirations of a "forgotten" population. He was the first president elected outside the Virginia political aristocracy and the Adams family of Massachusetts – in short, outside the original founding states.
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Nope, he is Trump. He has already and will continue to break the mold!
FDR was the WORST President in the history of this country. How dare you compare a new President to that wretched man!!
Forgotten Man--The Warner-Vigaphone Orchestra (1933)
I get the feeling he is more like Theodore Roosevelt. Carry a big stick.
My choice is Wilson. If not for the Manhattan Project, it would be FDR.
See the link in my tagline if you have time - it is a LONG booklet written in 1939 about FDR’s New Deal. obama was doing and saying the same things. I’m almost certain that certain FDR lines were used by obama in his speeches. And just like we are STILL dealing with FDR’s rotten policies, so it will be with what obama pushed through. FUBO.
He shares Jackson fire and disregard for what folks think except in Jackson case he would and did kill people who insulted his wife
Jackson defied a well sabered Redcoat officer at aged 14 I think
He was damn tuff
Trump has appointed better folks than I’ve ever seen frankly
Period
Casey was strong at CIA but this is different
He's a lot like Trump. He's his own man with his own ideas and his own way of doing things. Comparisons with past presidents is pretty meaningless.
He quickly found out the government could not build anything..
at the time you had the Army and Navy building or controling production..
Someone told him that he need to get the Titans of industry involved
He took the advice and the US won the war because we could build everything faster than either Germany or Japan
There planes were better than ours for a time ...we just had more men killed flying sub par planes..
Same on the battle field..the Germany Tank was superior but Patton evened the score with his leadership
When we first entered the war solders were cannon fodder for a long time til we got better arms..we had crap at the start of the war
Only time will tell.
I prefer to think that eventually the comparison
will be,” Is X more like Reagan or Trump?”
Hopefully it will be a long while before we have to say,
“Is X more like Clinton or Obama?”.
Crap! I got all excited until I realized the author wasn’t referring to Roosevelt Grier and Samuel L. Jackson....
Read “Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II by Col. Belton Cooper”. Cooper was 3rd Armor’s chief ordnance officer in WWII he has a completely different view of Patton.
As a proper liberal I only read the headline, my question is WTH does Micheal Jackson have to do with the president
Anyone who doesn’t believe that Patton exemplified great leadership is in a very tiny minority.
Read the book! Written by a man who was there.
He blames Patton on holding up the production of the Pershing. This was a tank on par with or slightly superior to the Panther. Cooper argues that Patton “leadership failure “ on this cost the US thousands of lives.
My point is Patton had his blind spots and was not the all conquering flawless God-of-War some people make him out to be.
hard to argue with that :)
No one said he was a “flawless God.” He just happened to be the best we had. Both of my grandfathers served under Patton and both had nothing but respect for him.
*rme* What does President Trump has to do with Roosevelt Grier and Samuel Jackson?
I guess what I am trying to say is its good to read the critics as well as the “hagiographers”. The “truth” is probably somewhere in the “middle”, exactly where the reader has to reason out.
This is hands down the worst president in the American History.
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