Have to disagree, hands down the worst president ever was James Buchanan. He was spineless and did almost nothin while rebels attempted to tear the country apart. Even had memebers of his own cabinet sending weapons to states that were talking about leaving. Though he did eventually stop this. If he would have had half the spine that Andrew Jackson did there might not have been a civil war. Of course then slavery might have lasted in the US into the 20th century.
However, I would definitely put Woodrow Wilson near the bottom, with Obama and Bush jr joining him down there.
The Civil War was inevitable. It may have been inevitable because of the compromises at the Constitutional Convention and the structural flaws resulting therefrom. It may have been inevitable because of Eli Whitney (the cotton gin was only half, the concept of interchangeable parts was the other half). It may have been inevitable because of the Missouri Compromise. It may have been inevitable due to the Nullification Crisis. It may have been inevitable because of the Judiciary’s failure to prevent it in Dred Scott v. Sanford. None of those can be laid at Buchanan’s feet.
In any event, the Civil War was going to happen. And it is a good thing that the Union won it.
I’m still pulling for Jimmah Carter as the worst. He had only one term to drag the nation down into malaise, double digit inflation, gas lines, ineffectualness in foreign matters, losing Iran to the mullahs, calling his opponents racists, etc.
And THEN he has had thirty seven years of being our worst ex-president ever, encouraging our enemies and those of Israel, speaking ill constantly of any Republican president and being an obnoxious globalist so much that he makes Obama look like a rank amateur as an anti-American.