George Washington. This thing should have been nipped in the bud.
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I would hire nucular George every day for the next 4 years to get rid of the orange dipshit.
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James K. Polk. He went into a bloody war for conquest with Mexico to conclude Manifest Destiny.
If weβre talking strictly the neoliberal era would it be too out there to say 1. Bush Jr 2. Reagan 3. Biden? All time though probably Andrew Jackson
While i abhor Bush Jr, I would put Reagan as #1. He paved the way for Bush Jr. And Biden. IMO Bush Sr is tied for the #3 spot simply for pardoning members of the Iran-Contra affair.
Nixon is one of the worst presidents we've ever had though, and I would put him higher than any of the others. The "war on drugs" caused so many rippling horrors domestically. And those horrors don't compare to what he did abroad.
Wilson and Nixon are definitely up there with Jackson too
andrew jackson (or johnson can never remember which) for the trail of tears. absolutely awful
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It's Reagan or Nixon, no contest. Bush pales in comparison
Woodrow Wilson was so racist that he was quoted in an epigraph for "The Birth of a Nation." You know, the 1915 movie about how awesome the KKK was, which became the first true "blockbuster" film and which led to a huge resurgence in KKK activity. Not only that, but Woodrow Wilson also personally invited the filmmakers to screen the movie in the White House - the first movie ever screened in the White House, by the way. Honorable mention!
As well as hating black people he also hated Slavs too and laid the foundations for anti-soviet US foreign policy
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Ronald Reagan did more damage to this country than any president before or after him.
Before or after him so far
I feel like the "so far" is implied...unless you've somehow figured out how to 100% accurately predict the future and you haven't told anyone.
...By the way, if that's the case, rude.
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