Posted on 02/20/2018 9:55:22 AM PST by Rummyfan
In 2018, Republicans rail at Barack Obama and Democrats refuse to call Donald Trump "their president," but many of the worst presidents in American history have been largely forgotten.
A recent YouGov survey found most Americans ranked Trump the worst president (40 percent), followed by Obama (27 percent). Perhaps unsurprisingly, 71 percent of Democrats said Trump was the worst (6 percent of Republicans agreed). Similarly, 57 percent of Republicans chose Obama as the worst president (2 percent of Democrats agreed).
This myopia proved astonishing because even the infamous Richard Nixon paled in comparison to Trump and Obama. Ironically, more Republicans (7 percent) chose Nixon as the worst president than Democrats (6 percent). Tragically, no president before Richard Nixon (1969-1974) received enough downvotes to be mentioned in the results.
While today's Democrats and Republicans are well-acquainted with the scandals of Trump and Obama respectively, they may know less about James Buchanan or Franklin Pierce. Trump and Obama are arguably too fresh for historians to develop an accurate view of their presidencies, but many lesser-known presidents (and one or two revered presidents) deserve to go down in infamy.
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The 4x presidents prior to Trump were easily the worst the Republic has ever known.
Each a traitor who endeavoured to destroy American sovereignty
What exactly did Bush Sr. do (differently than Reagan) that endeavored to destroy American sovereignty?
James Buchanan, he pretty much caused the War of Secession.
FDR, Carter, Clinton and Obama followed up in kind.
I was surprised that LBJ fared much better than the whole lot of them.
Agree, Wilson did the most damage.
LBJ should be near the top of that list.
Probably 3rd place in my book - he was evil on a totally new level though.
Double digit inflation/stagflation/malaise?
Three Mile Island?
"Lusting in my heart"? "Billy Beer"?
That Iranian hostage thing?
A POTUS who takes policy advice from his preteen daughter?
Any of this ringing a bell?
A really good series you can watch online that exposes just how horrible Wilson was is is the “The Great War” on PBS (of all places).
The series is focused on the U.S. involvement in WWI, but what Wilson did during that time was a real eye-opener. On entering office, he purged all black Federal workers from their jobs or re-segregated offices if he wasn’t able to fire them. He started a massive government propaganda office that spoon-fed the press with pro-war and anti-German hysteria. His administration than basically made it an act of sedition to criticize the government’s war effort in any fashion.
The PBS mini-series on the Great War focusses quite a bit on the pro-war propaganda efforts as well as the clampdown on any dissent against the war. It is real history, but it sounds much like the hypothetical world in the novel “In Can’t Happen Here”.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/great-war/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/
I can’t imagine how carter didn’t make the list.
FDR was one of the very worst, if not the worst.
Wilson is the worst. Certainly the most racist, set race relations back by years.
I can't recommend that series enough. I learned a lot I didn't know about WWI from it.
Court packing, Leftist SS/income taxes, gold confiscation, two World Wars, Depression via Fed. Reserve, ‘Works’ programs, ‘public education’, ‘gun control’...
Nope, the early 20th century had the worst men for the health of the Republic. All others since have stood upon their shoulders.
LBJ? Horrible. JFK? Far worse than his current popular reputation would indicate (see above). Harding, far better. You could make a career out of this debate.
In Wilson's defense, however, two items: the Fourteen Points aren't particularly radical or inconsistent with modern approaches to the same issues - read them and see. That they could lead to the surrender of American sovereignty (as they have at the hands of others) isn't really obvious from the text. And second, nobody really knows just how much his late-administration decisions were actually taken by the man himself, stricken by a stroke, and how many were taken by his wife, who has a fair claim to being the first female President. That said, the man elected on the slogan "He kept us out of the war" who promptly got us right into that same war has a very great deal to answer for.
American Presidents are overrated and have way too much leeway and power that the Founders absolutely would detest. Ronald Reagan was my hero but even he besides epic and historic accomplishments made very bad decisions. This goes for President Trump also. Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bush I and II and of course the Kenyan were the nail hammerers into the American coffin. President Washington warned us about so many things from political parties, treating a president like a King and foreign entanglements. All of which are killing the country. let alone the fact that Congress is worthless, Supreme Court clueless and the American voter lacks IQ and critical thinking skills.
1. Obama
2. Carter
3. Woodrow Wilson
I’ve stayed away from PJ media for years because they are such click whores.
From having to click half a dozen times to get through this article, I see nothing’s changed.
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