Worst President in the 20th century?

[eagle7-31]

How Woodrow Wilson’s Vanity Destroyed the Old World - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany. Two days before, President Woodrow Wilson addressed legislators, admitting that only they could plunge America into what amounted to a continental abattoir, daily consuming Europe’s best and brightest. It...

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Not Hoover, though he is up there, not Nixon....not Carter, not LB. Woodrow Wilson gets the prize.

 

[rightwinger]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

 

[ReinyDays]

Herbert Hoover deserves a call-out here ... much of the safety net put in place by FDR's New Deal policies is what kept us out of serious trouble during both recessions in the 1970's and 2000's ... things Hoover was loath to do ...

 

[Pogo]

Herbert Hoover deserves a call-out here ... much of the safety net put in place by FDR's New Deal policies is what kept us out of serious trouble during both recessions in the 1970's and 2000's ... things Hoover was loath to do ...

Agree with posts 1 and 3, although I'll stop short of settling on a single "worst". My list of worst Prezzes since 1900 usually goes, in order of appearance: Wilson, Hoover, Truman, Bush II. It's not valid to count a sitting POTUS so that will be left for later. If we're strictly limiting to the 20th century, Bush gets dropped, but he didn't exactly get the next century off to a great start.

I make the break at 1900 because that (roughly) is when we devolved from an independent nation to an imperialist nation, ergo two different countries before and after. But on the reasoning that his presidency did venture (barely) into the 20thc, and because he largely caused that devolution to happen, McKinley deserves a dishonorable mention.

 

[Pogo]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

 

[rightwinger]

Herbert Hoover deserves a call-out here ... much of the safety net put in place by FDR's New Deal policies is what kept us out of serious trouble during both recessions in the 1970's and 2000's ... things Hoover was loath to do ...

Hoover’s response to a crippling Depression was......prosperity is just around the corner.
Let the economy work itself out and everything will be fine. Problem was, people were suffering and we couldn’t wait to let the banks work it out.

FDR implemented programs to immediately help the people. Some worked, some didn’t. But he took action

 

[rightwinger]

Worst Presidents of the 20th century

Harding
Hoover
Nixon
Carter

 

[rightwinger]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

Wilson was one of our first modern presidents.
He turned us into a global power and pushed the development of the League of Nations.
He won WWI which had been a stalemate for three years and Germany was on the brink of winning
He established the Federal Reserve which established the dollar as the global currency
Federal Trade Commission and 8 hour work day

His negatives were he was a racist and blocked cIvil rights. He also blocked women’s suffrage but eventually worked to pass it.
In WWI he restricted freedoms much like FDR did in WWII. Desperate times.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Wilson
FDR
Bush I
LBJ
Bush II

 

[Pogo]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

Wilson was one of our first modern presidents.
He turned us into a global power and pushed the development of the League of Nations.
He won WWI which had been a stalemate for three years and Germany was on the brink of winning
He established the Federal Reserve which established the dollar as the global currency
Federal Trade Commission and 8 hour work day

His negatives were he was a racist and blocked cIvil rights. He also blocked women’s suffrage but eventually worked to pass it.
In WWI he restricted freedoms much like FDR did in WWII. Desperate times.

WAY more than FDR, and not at all necessary. Deporting people for their politics? Tossing a presidential candidate in jail? And that was after the war. Some of his other negatives were all that imperialist meddling, already mentioned.

 

[Unkotare]

fdr was the worst ever.

 

[Pogo]

Bizarre. Half the posts here just disappeared.

 

[Meister]

Cleaned thread and one thread ban, please keep on topic going forward.

 

[rightwinger]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

Wilson was one of our first modern presidents.
He turned us into a global power and pushed the development of the League of Nations.
He won WWI which had been a stalemate for three years and Germany was on the brink of winning
He established the Federal Reserve which established the dollar as the global currency
Federal Trade Commission and 8 hour work day

His negatives were he was a racist and blocked cIvil rights. He also blocked women’s suffrage but eventually worked to pass it.
In WWI he restricted freedoms much like FDR did in WWII. Desperate times.

WAY more than FDR, and not at all necessary. Deporting people for their politics? Tossing a presidential candidate in jail? And that was after the war. Some of his other negatives were all that imperialist meddling, already mentioned.

Imperialist meddling?
That doesn’t sound like something the US would do. LOL

 

[Pogo]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

Wilson was one of our first modern presidents.
He turned us into a global power and pushed the development of the League of Nations.
He won WWI which had been a stalemate for three years and Germany was on the brink of winning
He established the Federal Reserve which established the dollar as the global currency
Federal Trade Commission and 8 hour work day

His negatives were he was a racist and blocked cIvil rights. He also blocked women’s suffrage but eventually worked to pass it.
In WWI he restricted freedoms much like FDR did in WWII. Desperate times.

WAY more than FDR, and not at all necessary. Deporting people for their politics? Tossing a presidential candidate in jail? And that was after the war. Some of his other negatives were all that imperialist meddling, already mentioned.

Imperialist meddling?
That doesn’t sound like something the US would do. LOL

Yeah again McKinley is where that started, he was kinda like the drug dealer who gets his prey addicted, with Hawaìi and Cuba and the Philippines. But his tenure was almost all in the 19th century so it's a little iffy to include him.

Aw, what the heck, he's in. Welcome to the worst club, Billymac.

 

[Polishprince]

Herbert Hoover deserves a call-out here ... much of the safety net put in place by FDR's New Deal policies is what kept us out of serious trouble during both recessions in the 1970's and 2000's ... things Hoover was loath to do ...

Hoover’s response to a crippling Depression was......prosperity is just around the corner.
Let the economy work itself out and everything will be fine. Problem was, people were suffering and we couldn’t wait to let the banks work it out.

FDR implemented programs to immediately help the people. Some worked, some didn’t. But he took action

FDR's programs, however, were a complete failure. American had high unemployment rates right through 1941, not being relieved until the Empire of Japan pulled a Pearl Harbor job on us in December of that year.

 

[Polishprince]

Worst Presidents of the 20th century

Harding
Hoover
Nixon
Carter

President Harding was a tremendous President. He returned America to normalcy from the insanity of the Wilson Regime, reduced income tax rates and presided over an outstanding economic boom. The number of radios, home electrification and automobile sales mushroomed during the his term of office. The US Automobile based culture, the modern suburbs all were born during the fabulous presidency of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

 

[Polishprince]

Carter's presidency was pathetic. He presided over the destruction of Industry and a soul crushing Depression in the Rust Belt. President Carter sought to sow malaise, and was successful in his goal.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

Wilson was one of our first modern presidents.
He turned us into a global power and pushed the development of the League of Nations.
He won WWI which had been a stalemate for three years and Germany was on the brink of winning
He established the Federal Reserve which established the dollar as the global currency
Federal Trade Commission and 8 hour work day

His negatives were he was a racist and blocked cIvil rights. He also blocked women’s suffrage but eventually worked to pass it.
In WWI he restricted freedoms much like FDR did in WWII. Desperate times.

Meh. A little Fascism never hurt anyone

 

[Polishprince]

Wilson’s decision to send US troops won the war.

And it sent Kansas Flu to Europe with them. Meanwhile Wilson, who contracted that so-called "Spanish" flu himself and lied about it, censored the press from talking about it and quashed free speech actually making it illegal to criticize the government, with the Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids. At the end of that war after saying all the right things about independence for nations under the thumb of colonialism he hypocritically ignored the pleas of one such hopeful trying to wrest his land from European colonialism, who was later named Ho Chi Minh. Meanwhile he was meddling in Latin America and had American troops in Russia in that country's civil war as late as 1920.

Lotta historians gloss over this but by the time Wilson was at the end of his second term he was despised by the public, so much that the 1920 Republican candidate Harding barely had to campaign at all and walked away with what was then the biggest electoral landslide ever. His rep has been sanitized since then, much like the UDC statues sanitized the Confederacy.

Wilson was one of our first modern presidents.
He turned us into a global power and pushed the development of the League of Nations.
He won WWI which had been a stalemate for three years and Germany was on the brink of winning
He established the Federal Reserve which established the dollar as the global currency
Federal Trade Commission and 8 hour work day

His negatives were he was a racist and blocked cIvil rights. He also blocked women’s suffrage but eventually worked to pass it.
In WWI he restricted freedoms much like FDR did in WWII. Desperate times.

Wilson failed to shut down the American economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and that made him personally responsible for those deaths that exceeded the deaths in battle during WWI.

You are right that he was a racist, but Far Left Princeton University has failed to remove his name from their campus, making them partners in his nefariousness.