Will Trump be below Buchanan in historical rankings?

[Badger]

Here's what I typed earlier today in another thread.


Whereas Buchanan dithered and made horrible choices accelerating secession in the face of the Civil War, it is highly unlikely he could have averted the war, and was guilty primarily of indecision plus horse and buggy use of the power of the president to prevent secession. Trump dealing with covid-19 was worse in that not only did he blatantly act out of pure partisan self-interest to try to protect the stock market and GDP growth for his re-election, but such perfidy led to literally hundreds of thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.

Whereas Nixon's abuse of the presidency was far-reaching and abhorrent, first, at least he was punished for it appropriately - - f*** you GOP except Mitt Romney-- and more importantly it did not rise to the level of literally trying to tear down American democracy in order to ensure himself re-election. Nixon tried to burgle his opponents headquarters, Trump try to fundamentally sabotage the US Postal Service. Example after example, Trump abused the president's Authority on a scale far worse than Nixon ever did, and the GOP permitted him to escape.

The abject corruption and graft that went on during the Harding Administration was venile and truly of an unprecedented scale of the time. That is until now. Harding was at least not personally involved or profiting from the grass, but refused to do anything about his cronies enriching themselves at the taxpayer expense even though he knew it was happening. Trump by contrast has aggressively abused presidential Authority and foreign conflicts of interest to enrich himself personally and his family, in a manner far worse than Albert Fall got out of the Teapot Dome scandal  Etc.

In summary, by comparison to the three worst Presidents who earned their ignoble place in American history respectively by failing to act in the face of a deadly National crisis, far-reaching abuse of the powers of the presidency, and whole scale graft and Corruption, Trump is quite worse than each of them in their respective failings. Furthermore, he combines those 3 worst Presidents failings all into one single Administration!

Worst. President. Ever. And I am grossly disappointed and concerned about the state of our democracy that he even came remotely close to re-election. Yes, Democrats have some serious soul-searching and post-election autopsies to perform regarding how the bottom fell out for Latino support and they even lost support among young African-American men to such a despicable character. But at the end of the day don't Trump's supporters likewise deserve more than a little blame for continuing to support this garbage bag of a president?

[Badger]

Atlas bubble gonna atlas bubble.

The obvious answer is hell no.

Oh really? Why don't you offer counter argument then?

What would it be too much trouble to peel your lips off of Trumps shoes?