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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by zyratoxx@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Depending on how the next four years go I'm on the fence between Bush Jr. and Trump but I'd like to hear from you

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Top 10 suggestions so far (unordered):

  • Andrew Jackson
  • Andrew Johnson
  • George W. Bush Jr
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Richard Nixon
  • James K. Polk
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • James Buchanan
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Donald J. Trump
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[-] Castor_Troy@hexbear.net 1 points 7 hours ago

No one said Buchanan.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 15 points 14 hours ago
[-] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 16 hours ago

George W Bush Jr.

Yes I am handing him the worst president title, even over Trump.

Because, it was his mishandled War on Terror, that plunged the country into massive national debt. He crashed the housing market. He literally had waged a war on obese people, minorities and other things as distractions from his failure to capture Osama. He allowed American Surveillance with Patriot Act I and II. His cabinet were all crooks and he was just a dumb puppet.

He is essentially the ripple effect of everything we're dealing with today and Trump is merely the symptom of that.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 76 points 1 day ago

Ronald Reagan did more damage to this country than any president before or after him.

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 18 points 21 hours ago

I'm continually shocked by how often I learn of some structural systemic issue, pull the thread to see where it started and- oh, surprise, it was once again Reagan.

[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 34 minutes ago

Most of Reagan's agenda came from the heritage foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eeCPRD0Hgg&t=0

The capital class controls the heritage foundation and through their countless think tanks, lobbyist, donations, SuperPACs, etc they control the Republican party and even a large part of the Democratic party.

Marx was correct when he argued that economic democracy was necessary for political democracy. When the wealthy get to own the economy they have the entire country by the balls.

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's no coincidence that Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had such a close relationship - they thought alike.

In Britain, Thatcher is still reviled by many for sweeping changes. Killed the coal industry without giving support to the many thousands employed there and put the North into recession, took milk away from children, depowered the unions (which were too powerful at the time, tbf) and generally put the Tory Party on the London & Banks first mantra that they've been on ever since.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago

Before or after him so far

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Trump is definitely in the bottom quintile, but also anyone putting him in the bottom 5 is just recency bias.

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

Most people who argued for Trump said it's because of Jan 6th and his other felonies and that he was allowed to run again and became reelected (even tho a partition of the us citizens are to blame for the latter). I also think people already value him lower because of Project 2025 and out of fear what will happen during his 2nd term.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Wasn't it Nixon who sold the americans out? Or Truman?

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

George Washington. This thing should have been nipped in the bud.

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[-] Today@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I would hire nucular George every day for the next 4 years to get rid of the orange dipshit.

[-] undercrust@lemmy.ca 8 points 19 hours ago

It is absolutely fuckin bonkers that Trump is so bad that a person can say they yearn for the good old days with Dubya without a hint of sarcasm

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