Opinion of Ulysses S. Grant

[RINO Tom]

Massive FF, one of the most underrated Presidents.  The two biggest complaints about him is that he was too big of a corporatist and that his administration was corrupt ... given the time he took over, IDGAF.

[RINO Tom]

For those interested, the Ultimate Guide to the Presidents series on the History Channel (can be found on YouTube) has a very interesting segment on Grant.  For some of its flaws (oversimplification being an obvious one, given the amount of history it crams into the series), that series does a good job painting ideological struggles in the context of their times, IMO.  For example, Jackson is painted as clearly to the left of Quincy Adams, given that the main debates of the time were centered around the influence that private enterprise would have over government affairs, and Jackson was clearly on the more "progressive" side of that debate.

There is even a hilarious segment that would about give Crabcake a heart attack where the narrator talks about "the fiscally conservative Grant" vetoing a spending bill, haha.