Can someone explain the anti-Wilson sentiment at this forum? Most historians rank him among the top 10 Presidents, on the other hand.
Wilson was pretty racist even by the standards of his day - the northern upper middle classes' standard (from which all presidents since 1877 had sprung), at least.
He also suffered a debilitating stroke which rendered him, effectively, insane and certainly inable to discharge the duties of his office. For the last 18 months of his term, the US might have been better off with no President at all. This led directly to the failure of the League of Nations (for that was doomed with America not joining) - and thence, in a way, to World War II.
He was decent up to then, but it's not really fair to judge his performance on the first six years alone - which is
exactly what most historians are doing.
