The 4x presidents prior to Trump were easily the worst the Republic has ever known.
Each a traitor who endeavoured 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.
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.
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.
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.
Lyndon Johnson, the President we still have not recovered from. An absolute disaster who started us down the road to ruin that we still are on.
Wilson and LBJ. Ugh!
How about Harrison and the billion dollar congress? What precedent they set
I would say Buchanan was the worst, followed by Wilson, Carter and Lyndon Johnson
Another is Fillmore...got to see why he is the worst...