[bilhosty]

My opinion of Wilson is that basically he was a southern Conservative. He tried to masquerade as a progressive when that was in. But, he undermined that agenda and minimized it and at the first time possible he declared it dead. He was a political chameleon who made friends and then repudiated them when it became the thing to do. He was kind of a weirdo-oh. But he was not the leftist Glen Beck makes him out to be.

[DesertRhino]

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.

[tsomer]

My opinion of Wilson is that basically he was a southern Conservative.

I see your point, but I think it needs pointing out that this is not the same as "conservative."

Wilson was a Southern Aristocrat. This was the source of his arrogance, racism, and autocratic tendencies--is much ballyhooed idealism as well.