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[–] 7 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

It's not even close. The next worse president you could point to is maybe Nixon? And while Nixon was not a good guy, Trump makes him look like an upstanding citizen.

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago* (6 children)

    Jackson and Wilson were much worse than, and set the stage for, Nixon.

    Jackson caused the single deepest, (by percentages, not dollar value because there were a lot fewer dollars back then,) longest, and worst depression in US history, while also overseeing multiple genocides. (Trail of Tears, The Long Walk, etc.)

    Wilson on the other hand increased the power of the presidency to a tryannical degree, passed the Insurrection and Sedition Act of 1913, authored and pushed Southern Revisionism, segregated the Federal Government for the first time in history, and that's just some of the stuff he did here at home, much less instituting Wilsonian Doctrine, which is what changed the US into "The Defenders of Democracy™."

    That being said, I don't think Trump was worse than Jackson or Wilson, but damn is he trying.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

    Thanks for bringing up Wilson in particular since a lot of people know Jackson was a shitter. Seriously I so wish the Republicans had back Roosevelt or Roosevelt had backed off of running third party, the US would probably be in a better place today.

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    I've said for years that if I had a time machine, I'd stop Hitler and the Nazis, as well as Stalin from gaining power, by going to the 1970's and picking up as much of the hideously unhealthy fast food that Taft never got to eat, take it back to 1910 and 1911 and feed his fat ass till he has a heart attack and doesn't screw up the 1912 election.

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