These same historian have FDR (8 years 20% Unemployment and Stalin's sock puppet) as the "Best"?
LOL
Exactly. When I saw FDR was in the top five, despite the fact that he sent Holocaust refugees back to Europe to be incinerated and put American citizens in concentration camps, I knew I was dealing with racist leftnuts.
Agreed, Roosevelt made some mistakes. But no president in the last 100 years has had a greater impact on the American society, including today. Can you say Social Security? And Roosevelt won WWII when he implemented the CCC. So yeah, Roosevelt gets the top slot. I mean WTF did Trump do, other than divide this nation as effectively as Buchanan. I mean maybe Trump was not the worst president ever, but other than Buchanan, I can't think of anyone worse. His ranking will fall further down the line. Beside Harrison? No, he don't rank that high.
Where to begin?????????????...........................
FDR did not "win" WW2. In fact, most of the fighting was between Hitler and Stalin. And are we really expected to believe that FDR did not know that the Japanese were coming for Pearl Harbor even though we know for a fact that the US had broken the Japanese code and used it some 6 months later to win at Midway.
FDR was a racist by the Left's own admission by locking away Japanese Americans just because they had squinty eyes. The Left even agrees that it was not Constitutional for him to do so.
And as was said, he helped hide the Holocaust from the public and tried to keep Jews out of the US in the process so they could die in Hitler's ovens
And here is how much FDR cared about Blacks. Roosevelt condemned lynching as murder, but he did not support Republican proposals to make it a federal crime, although his wife
Eleanor did so. Roosevelt told an advocate: "If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, they [Southern Democratic senators] will block every bill I ask Congress to pass to keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk".
And don't forget the court packing scheme. His New Deal got struck down as unconstitutional so the reaction was to try and give SCOTUS all the boot. Fortunately, the Democrat party at the time was appalled at his lack of respect for the balance of power, but today every last democrat is ready to do it.
So what did Trump do that was remotely as bad again?