Slate focusing on the big issues of the day.
If anyone needs to be removed from the money, it’s Grant. What did he do? Yes, he was a Civil War general, but he’s at or near the top of most expert’s Worst U.S. President lists.
Still, it’s such a minor thing.
Typically such lists basically boil down to this: list the most popular recent democrats in 4 or 5 of the top 10 slots (Usually FDR, Truman, JFK, Woodrow Wilson) plus a couple of founding fathers, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt (as the original RINO and inventor of the third party strategy to elect Democrats) thrown in to round out the top 10. Then the next five will include terrible democrat presidents like LBJ and Clinton either just before or just after Reagan. In the top 15 you will get four republicans: Teddy Roosevelt (progressive), Eisenhower (sentimental favorite to baby boomers), Lincoln, and way down the list Reagan. That's it.
Not saying Grant was a good president but if Reagan is only coming in around 15 then Grant has no hope of being in the top 30.