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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:29 PM Mar 2018

Is Trump the worst president in American History?

America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before, Donald Trump, have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities.

America’s great good fortune was, to begin with, the opposite – a superb moral leader. By June of 1775, when Congress appointed George Washington to command the nation’s army, he had already “become a moral rallying post,” as his biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, described him. He was,“the embodiment of the purpose, the patience, and the determination necessary for the triumph of the revolutionary cause.”

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/03/31/robert-reich-is-trump-the-worst-president-in-american-history/

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Is Trump the worst president in American History? (Original Post) egbertowillies Mar 2018 OP
Trump is prez because of nose holders and whiners Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1
No. RandomAccess Mar 2018 #5
Whiners for sure. InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2018 #7
Yep, people going on and on "I will vote for her BUT I will hold my nose and I DONT Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #8
+1000 TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #16
Only so far. TheCowsCameHome Mar 2018 #2
I can't imagine any of the others being worse than trump. CatMor Mar 2018 #3
Trump seems to have hit the trifecta: crook, bigot and incompetent. Arkansas Granny Mar 2018 #4
Worst since George W Bush oberliner Mar 2018 #6
Makes Shrub look like an elder statesman... that's sayin a lot! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2018 #10
Lowest IQ, most ignorant. ooky Mar 2018 #9
Reagan did more damage. Buchanan was a far worse enabler of hate. malchickiwick Mar 2018 #11
Trump is way worse...and will damage this country more. Demsrule86 Mar 2018 #18
Reagan took 8 years to do as much harm as Trump will in 2 jmowreader Apr 2018 #20
In a time............... MyOwnPeace Mar 2018 #12
Yes. It's as if someone took the worst aspects of John Fante Mar 2018 #13
Yes Hayduke Bomgarte Mar 2018 #14
History experts in New York Times op-ed: Trump worst president ever, Obama in top 10 Poiuyt Mar 2018 #15
Absolutely the worst. The competition isn't even close. (nt) Paladin Mar 2018 #17
Worst high office holder in all of human history Bragi2 Mar 2018 #19
NO, Reagan was worse Raine Apr 2018 #21
I'm in Jspur Apr 2018 #22
Absolutely. Drunken Irishman Apr 2018 #23
He's the worst in my lifetime and I was born during Truman's presidency. Vinca Apr 2018 #24
 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
5. No.
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:46 PM
Mar 2018
Hillary didn't lose because she was less POPULAR. She lost because of James Comey's letters and because of some even more important factors -- more important because they're not going away. They will be used against us in every election going forward, unless we can stop them.

The big problems are voter suppression, Russian meddling, and targeted voter propaganda through Twitter, Google, Facebook, and other forms of social media. There is no question that the Trump campaign, through Cambridge Analytica, did this -- and that the Russians did this. The only question is how much they conspired together in the propaganda campaign.

We need to figure out how to defend the democratic process from fake news and micro-targeted AI propaganda -- or lose our democracy. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029576691


And btw, the definition of nose-holder would be: someone who VOTES for someone they'd rather not have to vote for.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
8. Yep, people going on and on "I will vote for her BUT I will hold my nose and I DONT
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:51 PM
Mar 2018

trust her" what that SHIT does is reduce voting.

People hear that all day everyday and the result is Rump

I wish I could SCREAM at every person who said that SHIT about this great woman, Hillary Clinton.

 

TheSmarterDog

(794 posts)
16. +1000
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 06:01 PM
Mar 2018

At some point Democrats will have to admit that those people were the product of Russian interference & that Sanders benefited from that interference just as Trump did.

malchickiwick

(1,474 posts)
11. Reagan did more damage. Buchanan was a far worse enabler of hate.
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 01:29 PM
Mar 2018

But the dotard is close to being as terrible as both of the above.

MyOwnPeace

(16,936 posts)
12. In a time...............
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 01:37 PM
Mar 2018

when the population should be better educated and people are more aware of events as they take place (news 24/7) - there is NO excuse for having the least educated person ever hold the position of President.

He IS the worst - EVER!!!!!!!!

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
13. Yes. It's as if someone took the worst aspects of
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 01:37 PM
Mar 2018

other shitty presidents and pumped them with human growth hormone. The result is Trump.

Poiuyt

(18,129 posts)
15. History experts in New York Times op-ed: Trump worst president ever, Obama in top 10
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 04:57 PM
Mar 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/02/19/history-experts-new-york-times-op-ed-trump-worst-president-ever-obama-top-10/353024002/

Donald Trump is America's worst president, says a New York Times opinion piece that's based on a survey of 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section.

The survey was conducted by Brandon Rottinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, and Justin S. Vaughn, an associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Idaho History and Politics at Boise State University.

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The authors said the four years since the previous survey had other changes in rankings, with James Buchanan, who was at the helm as the United States careened into civil war, benefiting from the Trump era. Buchanan was dislodged from his position as our nation’s worst president by Trump.

more at link-

I'm sure James Buchanan's family is happy.

Bragi2

(37 posts)
19. Worst high office holder in all of human history
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:25 PM
Mar 2018

Except maybe for when emperor Caligula nominated his horse to be a Roman Consul.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
21. NO, Reagan was worse
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 03:17 AM
Apr 2018

we're still living with how he changed this country and he made Trump possible. I despise Reagan above ALL others!

Jspur

(578 posts)
22. I'm in
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 03:43 AM
Apr 2018

30's but it never ceases to amaze me since I have been alive that the republicans always manage to elect presidents that tend to be worse than the previous republican president when it comes to causing damage. The only time that didn't apply was with Bush senior so I just ignore him like he doesn't exist. I was born during the end of Reagan's first term. Reagan was pretty shitty and started the economic destruction of this country. Fast forward to Bush who gave us two wars, increased debt by a ridiculous rate, and passed Reagan tax cuts. With Bush we got reaganomics with two shitty Wars, terrorism, finacial crisis, housing crisis, Enron, Katrina and increased gas prices. I felt Bush topped Reagan by huge margin. Now with Trump he took reaganomics to another level with his new taxes which he gives tax cuts to the rich and everybody else gets a tax increase unless they are upper middle class which is bunch of bs. That's some class stratification that not even Reagan or Bush could pull of when it comes to their shitty tax cuts. Trump has also weakened Obamacare, and is in the process of gutting Net Neutrality. Right now Trump could possibly top Bush with his upgraded Reagonomic tax cuts 2.0, gutted Net Neutrality, weakened health insurance. He's managed to do this in just over a year. Just imagine what other shitty things he will pull off.

From Reagan to Bush jr and to Trump. It just seems like each new republican presidents always manages to one up the other when it comes to destructive policies that harms the 99 percent and destroys the country. Trump is the worst president until the next republican president comes.

Vinca

(50,299 posts)
24. He's the worst in my lifetime and I was born during Truman's presidency.
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 07:47 AM
Apr 2018

Reagan and Bush Jr. were pretty bad, but if you scale the damage by the amount of time Trump has been in office it's going to go off the charts.

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