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His main southern tie was to be born in Virginia,,and that he packed his cabinet with some racists from the south who brought along their segregation ideals.

It’s honestly hard to find anything admirable about the man.
From his sick personal beliefs, to his running of the economy in war as a defacto dictatorship, to arresting people for speaking against the draft, he was he worst stereotype of a dictator. Not surprising for a preachers kid who was an ivy league educator. Huge sense of his moral and intellectual superiority. Beck is right.

Just look up the “National Security league”.

Wilson’s “Four Minute Men” were paid to pose as the average guy on the street and support the president and his policies. Kinda like Obamaturfers named Ellie light who send letterss to papers around the nation supporting Obama’s “good works”.

Most everything you said was right. But, Princeton where he was President was a really a southern school in the north. When he signed the last progressive bill that he signed he expressed his desire that this would be the end of the progressive era and he expressed his distaste for it. There were still others who felt there was more to go on that agenda. He was no leftist unless he had to pretend to be. Many people thought at the time he sold out by watering down the left agenda on his legislation for instance by not nationalizing the banking industry when he singed the federal reserve act. Although Beck might disagree he gave the conservative bankers who ran the national Dem party everything they wanted.

Huge sense of his moral and intellectual superiority.

I'm tending to think that is probably the best description of Wilson and the majority of the 'Progressives' of that era. Without question, there was a lot of corruption at the time as well as some social ills brought on by rapid industrialization and urbanization that did need to be addressed in some form.

But people like Wilson were so damn cocksure they had all the answers and their answers were the only answers. They either ignored well founded objection to their policies or just steam rolled their policies through without considering potential negative consequences.

I don't think they were some well oiled machine looking to destroy the Republic. I think you are corect and hubris is the best way to describe them.

If some of the tactics Wilson used such as censorship had been used by his opposition he would have been screaming to high heaven. But he saw no problem using those tactics when it supported his 'enlightened vision.'

All and all, not a good guy to have in high office.