There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
None of us are saying that.
We are saying Nixon had some things stick that were good.
And Nixon was a monster.
We are saying that is how much worse that makes Trump.
He's like Jackson, Hoover, and Nixon rolled into one. Strike that, Trump is taking all the worst parts of nearly every POTUS and doing them in a speed run.
And for the record, Johnson and Buchanan did FAR worse things than Nixon or Trump. I would even say Harding, Pierce, Tyler, Fillmore, and Harrison are in the same category as Trump.
Donald J. Trump is well cemented into the place of being one of our 3 worst POTUS of all time.
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
If you made a Mt. Suckmore, who would you have?
Mine right now is Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Donald Trump, and I dunno for the 4th ... either Harding, Pierce, or Hoover.
And if Mount Rushmore was made now, who would you go with?
I would go with Lincoln, Teddy, Reagan, and Obama.
I know I will get flack for those choices.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
The bar can always go lower. People in the past thought Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and Bush Jr were some of the worst presidents too. Trump outdid Bush who had Katrina and the Iraq War. I am sure the GOP can trot out someone even worse especially since they are doubling down on the White Nationalism.
I agree with that.
I mean a second Mt Rushmore maybe cool for modern presidents but yeah could see why Washington becreplaced. The man honestly had no political experience ( general/farmer tycoon) but. He was smart enough to let his staff do all the damn government stuff for him while he was a status symbol.
Jefferson did write our important papers and gave us many states as president. Yeah I think Obsma would get the most flank as he is the most recent. Reagan was not perfect either but he did great things, many great things ( That the intelligent Trumpers if you call them that, hate Reagan for being Liberterain/Neo Liberal. Those guys are scary, wanting **** prior to Reagan.) *
*= Those guys want to triple down on White Nationalism.
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Making deals and saying Toho e calls made to people after he wins. The same trying to rig the election.
And he is the president, saying only stupid people follow the law.
Yeah, he’s on Mt Suckmore.
What everyone is looking for in this Nixon/Trump comparison is this...
Both are corrupt. Nixon, however, was highly competent, with the exception of his ego getting far enough out of control to have a Watergate break-in, and a press and Congress with enough backbone to not let him get away with it.
The corruption and malevolence of the Trump administration has been undone by its incompetence across the board, however, he has the benefit of a press who were slow to realize how he manipulated them, a Fox News to prop him up where the rest wouldn't, and a Republican Party with no spine whatsoever to stand up to him.
That's the difference.
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Mount Rushmore was a trashy monument built on land stolen from the Sioux. The thing to do is give the land back to the Sioux, not build a crappy monument or add or subtract, and so validate that theft.
Ranking Presidents is a mug's game. Conventionally Washington, Lincoln, FDR are seen as America's Top 3. I personally rank Lincoln as the greatest president because he's a complete figure in terms of being a great intellectual, wonderful and innovative political thinker, master politician, a brilliant war leader who was a quick study and a quick master of strategy, and all things considered, a genuinely decent (not perfect or consitently good, mind you) human being, even accounting for the standards of time. Someone with a capacity for change and growth. He's a complete figure. So the complete measure of Lincoln -- personal goodness and human decency, mastery in politics, military strategy, intellect -- is a good gauge to evaluate presidents. Washington and FDR by contrast aren't as complete figures. Washington wasn't a good general, nor was he a great intellectual and I certainly don't think he was a good human being (it's really impossible for a slaveowner to be considered one). FDR great war leader and commander in chief, brilliant politician, and had his moments as a thinker, but he was also incredibly manipulative and crafty on a personal level, and of course capricious and inconsistent when it came to defending Jews, and racist to Japanese-Americans...so he fails in terms of personal goodness.
Of course you can have presidents who are consequential like Eisenhower who were otherwise mediocre. Eisenhower appointed Warren to the SCOTUS which was the most consequential judicial appointment of the 20th Century, and he enforced Brown v. Board of Education, he created DARPA (and so all the stuff that came from that, including the internet, is his legacy), America's highway system, and he sent troops to South Vietnam. In a large sense his presidency was consequential to the present day and that the generation of Presidents after him (JFK-LBJ-Nixon) merely dealt with or expanded on the fallout of his policies and decisions. I tend to think of JFK--LBJ--Nixon as a single entangled era of Presidency because policy wise and ideology and personality wise there's so much continuity across their administrations even if there's political and personal differences galore between them...and all of them belonged roughly to the same generation (Nixon and JFK certainly, Johnson was older than them).
In general most presidents are mediocre and assessing them is hard. Woodrow Wilson was seen as a great president for a long time but in the last decade, deservedly, his estimation has greatly lowered. Theodore Roosevelt is on Mt. Rushmore but aside from his larger than life personality, his legacy isn't as pressing (in either a good or bad sense) to current America as others are.