Who Was The Worst President?

[RR1997]

Buchanan of course.

[Cory]

Andrew Johnson, hands down.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Buchanan of course.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Tie between Bush Jr. and Obama.

Are you 13?

He identifies as an anarchist, so yes.

[Ebowed]

Voted Reagan, but there is plenty of competition for this coveted title.

Tie between Bush Jr. and Obama.

Are you 13?

LOL

[SWE]

Tie between Bush Jr. and Obama.

no

[ElectionsGuy]

By presidency, that would probably have to be Buchanan, but in terms of negative impact I say Wilson.

Nixon. It's not at all likely that a President more competent than Buchanan could have prevented the civil war, which seems to be the main charge against him.

Isn't the charge him not even trying?

Yes, nobody could've prevented the Civil War, its the handling of it (or lack of) is what people are judging him off of.

[Maxwell]

Nixon. It's not at all likely that a President more competent than Buchanan could have prevented the civil war, which seems to be the main charge against him.

[Gass3268]

RWR

[ScottieF]

Pierce. I give him the edge over various other slave power tools for the disastrous Kansas-Nebraska Act, polarizing enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and botched effort to annex Cuba. And he supported the Confederacy when the Civil War broke out. Says a lot when your own party won't renominate you for a second term.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Wilson, WWI, Federal Reserve, and IIRC he also was pretty horrible on civil rights.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Buchanan (not a hack), with Pierce and Andrew Johnson close behind.

[Boston Bread]

Andrew Johnson

[courts]

probably pierce

[TDAS04]

Probably Buchanan. 

[Phony Moderate]

Buchanan.

Of course, there will always be people who view the incumbent President (whomever he or she is) as being the worst ever.

[MATTROSE94]

Buchanan (not a hack), with Pierce and Andrew Johnson close behind.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Buchanan of course.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wilson, WWI, Federal Reserve, and IIRC he also was pretty horrible on civil rights.

He was horrendous on civil rights, and he jailed dissidents.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

[1] Andrew Johnson (botched Reconstruction, racism, etc.)
[2] James Buchanan (pathetic response to secession, pawn of the slave power, etc.)
[3] Franklin Pierce (doughface)
[4] Warren G. Harding (isolationism, Tea Pot Dome, various personal scandals)

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Johnson by a mile, from this list. He actively sought to undo most of the works of the greatest President out of regional loyalty. Disgusting person.

Buchanan gets far too much hatred. He was an incompetent bureaucrat who was handed an untenable situation and did nothing effective to alleviate it. Franklin Pierce did far more to lead us down the path to civil war.

I'm shocked by the omission of Harding, who very likely would have been the first President removed from office if he hadn't died, and didn't have any of the policy accomplishments of Nixon to balance out his corruption.