> I don’t consider Andrew Johnson an especially bad president. <
I agree. And I’ll give Buchanan a pass as well. Buchanan was bewildered by events, and he really had nothing in the past to guide him. He just got caught up in the hurricane.
So, yeah. I’d strike both Buchanan and Johnson from the list, and add George W. Bush. Bush had the lessons of Vietnam right in front of him. And yet he repeated the errors LBJ made.
But, wait. It gets worse. Thanks To W’s stupidity, Islam is on the march. They are winning everywhere.
If he didn't know what he was doing, he shouldn't have taken the job. In fact, he did what he could to favor the slaveowners when the slavery issue was tearing the country apart. His appointees were taking steps to weaken the union, and that made secession more likely, and when the hurricane came, Buchanan did nothing. He could have said goodbye to the seceding states or he could have put his foot down, but instead he just left the problem for the next guy.
2nd term New World Order W Bush was the real beginning of the latest decline.