I have been wanting to do a post about the worse president….there should be some interesting opinions…..anyway….onward.
Just a few days after the 2018 Mid-Terms and the election got me to think about who were the worst presidents….
Who are the worst presidents we have had? I am sure that we all have our ideas who should make this list…..but There is a list put forth by true historians and why they are the worse.
Repubs will think Carter or Obama and maybe Clinton (why would they dislike the president that made the GOP the party it is today?)….for Dems they could be thinking Reagan……and these days you can imagine who would be on the list……well they are not on the list!
How do you determine who the worst presidents in U.S. history are? Asking some of the most notable presidential historians is a good place to start. In 2017, C-SPAN issued their third in-depth survey of presidential historians, asking them to identify the nation’s worst presidents and discuss why.
For this survey, C-SPAN consulted 91 leading presidential historians, asking them to rank the United States’ leaders on 10 leadership characteristics. Those criteria include a president’s legislative skills, his relations with Congress, performance during crises, with allowances for historical context.
Over the course of the three surveys, released in 2000 and 2009, some of the rankings have changed, but the three worst presidents have remained the same, according to historians. Who were they? The results just might surprise you!
https://www.thoughtco.com/worst-american-presidents-721460
I agree there are some that should be on this list and I bet we would not agree on the names……but if you look at the facts (real ones not the ones that FOX will spread) these are truly some of the worse presidents we have had…..and we could do worse….and possibly we may have already.
Just a thought!
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agree with this listings. However, John Tyler did make it into JFK’s Profiles in Courage for asserting himself as president not mere acting president. Grant seems to be held in low esteem but having read some bios I determine he had no part in the corruption of others and did a diligent effort to protect the freemen . Jackson is condemned for Trail of Tears forced march of Indian to west of Mississippi but some one had to do the dirty deed to prevent the immediate warfare and resultant dramatic extermination as millions of whites moved west bearing railroad and mining and agriculture and industry changing the land into pre industrial landscape. I have seen many posts citing alleged historians showing Trump as the worse but that is incorrect on two counts: No reputable historian would even consider the present president in a comparative survey as post office time is needed for a meaningful judgment. The other reason is that one standard used is whether a president delivered on his campaign promises and on that Trump should get an A. Healthcare and the wall are largely a matter of congressional funding and legislation so I don’t hold these two against him. FDR was the right man to replace Hoover but I cut Hoover some slack (except for Bonus Army response – men who were gassed in France were gassed in Washington) because the idea that government should have such a dramatic participation in an economy was terrifyingly revolutionary in conservative and moderate America. The preamble does say “promote the general welfare”. I see that not in terms of food stamp type welfare but in the sense of promoting pathways for economic growth and success and security leading to prosperity. Trump gets good marks there.
Thanx for your thoughts……chuq
Andrew Johnson by a long shot! Andrew Jackson and his Indian Removal ways runs a close second and Lincoln with his plans to free the slaves and ship them all out of the country with the special armada of ships he was in the process of authorizing was a close Third.
Thanx for your thoughts on this ….chuq
No place for Mr Trump? He must qualify, surely? Or is is only ‘past presidents’ that count?
Best wishes, Pete.
Don’t forget the White House squatter before the Trumpster!
And the one before then one before…..
LOL
In this case I think “past” would be the operative word…LOL chuq
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8319858/Abraham-Lincoln-wanted-to-deport-slaves-to-new-colonies.html