• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Jackson did the trail of tears. Wilson was a member of the KKK. Hoover took the economy into a Trump level nosedive.

      Listen Biden really fumbled here, but we’ve had some abysmal presidents.

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        Wilson refounded the KKK, he wasn’t just a member. He also authored Southern Revisionist History, funded and screened Birth of a Nation at the White House, and used the power of the presidency to erect a bunch of statues of people that specifically said they shouldn’t have any sort of memorials because they were traitors. Not to mention the insurrection and sedition act that allowed him tyrannical powers.

        I’d say Jackson and Wilson are tied for worst, but Trump is doing his damndest to be worse.

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        And yet the country recovered from all of those things and remained a republic. I think what Trump is doing now will be much longer lasting. He’s doing all of those things and now, deporting people he doesn’t like, cozies up to the KKK, and ruining the economy. He’s also started cold wars with long time allies and started a civil war by sending armies from neighboring states into states he doesn’t like.