I think Wilson and his merry gang of progressive commies did more harm to the Republic than just about any president. Just some of what a constitutionalist should view as failures, but the progressive/big government types see as success: 1913, the year the Republic died, gave us the 16th Amendment (made a direct line from the federal leviathan to the individual with no state between them), 17th Amendment (destroyed the state legislature's representation at the federal level, ensuring that "senators" become mere 6 term congressmen with slightly different rules/responsibilities and no accountability to their state), Federal Reserve System (no commentary/clarification of this evil is needed... we are bankrupt because of it - only the money printing device has delayed the inevitable). He also gifted us the war to perpetuate all wars (which ensured us every war from WWII to present) and segregation of the military.
Yeah, he was a disaster domestically. People also forget the sequence that followed his declaration of war on Germany: the Germans, realizing they could not overcome the Western Front with American support, put Lenin on the train to take out Kerensky's government in Russia, unleashing 75 years of Bolshevik misery on that land. So when people complain about Biden (I still think W was worse, but it's like comparing which Apple in the barrel was most rotten) being the worst President, there's really no comparison to Wilson.
Was hoping he would get canceled for the racism of his 1915 decisions with the army, but BLM failed to do us a solid there.
Putting Wilson in power is one reason I would support chipping Teddy Roosevelt off Mount Rushmore.
Yes, that is interesting that they didn't cancel Wilson, but then again, he was their academic/professor "smartest guy in the room" president. Kind of like his girlfriend (not literally) their eugenics queen Margeret Sanger. They don't cancel her either, even though she was the evil behind "planned" parenthood.
The Republicans have really added to the federal leviathan (Nixon and the various alphabet soups that grew life during his administration, revenues doubled under Reagan but spending went through the roof, W gave us the "Patriot" Act, endless wars, "low sulfur" diesel, bank bailouts, and kept running his mouth the weeks leading up to the election to ensure that people were sufficiently tired of him and they voted for BHO rather than McCain. My wife and I remember saying, "just shut up", "get out of the spotlight", yet he couldn't help himself or he was doing what he was told... I still think McCain had a good shot if W hadn't done the bank bailouts and his mouth running leading up to election day.
My top five worst presidents that did the most to harm the Republic: Wilson #1, LBJ #2, BHO #3, FJB #4, with W very, very close behind at #5.
You forgot the 18th amendment, originally the Volstead Act, meant to shut down German American biergartens. This from the same President who banned the performance of works of Beethoven. His insufferable superiority, echoed in modern woke sorts, is captured in a story by the late, great Angelo Codevilla:
"I remember a classmate of mine saying, 'Why, man, canтАЩt you let anything alone?' I said, ' I let everything alone that you can show me is not itself moving in the wrong direction, but I am not going to let those things alone that I see are going downhill.'"
Downhill, of course, being anyone making a decision a Prog does not agree with. German-American Mencken captured this sense from Wilson when he wrote that Puritanism is the sneaking suspicion that someone may be happy.
Hold on...you also forgot about the 19th Amendment -- giving women the right to vote. When I trace back to slide of America into a country where feminization rules, this is the starting point. Women are different than men; we can agree on that. And they tend to cast their votes for the most photogenic and the con-artists who claim to care about the electorate ("I feel your pain.") Women vote using their "feelings" about candidates rather than use logic to vote for those who understand and want to protect the constitution, along with the power of laissez-faire capitalism to secure and improve our future.
I think Wilson and his merry gang of progressive commies did more harm to the Republic than just about any president. Just some of what a constitutionalist should view as failures, but the progressive/big government types see as success: 1913, the year the Republic died, gave us the 16th Amendment (made a direct line from the federal leviathan to the individual with no state between them), 17th Amendment (destroyed the state legislature's representation at the federal level, ensuring that "senators" become mere 6 term congressmen with slightly different rules/responsibilities and no accountability to their state), Federal Reserve System (no commentary/clarification of this evil is needed... we are bankrupt because of it - only the money printing device has delayed the inevitable). He also gifted us the war to perpetuate all wars (which ensured us every war from WWII to present) and segregation of the military.
Yeah, he was a disaster domestically. People also forget the sequence that followed his declaration of war on Germany: the Germans, realizing they could not overcome the Western Front with American support, put Lenin on the train to take out Kerensky's government in Russia, unleashing 75 years of Bolshevik misery on that land. So when people complain about Biden (I still think W was worse, but it's like comparing which Apple in the barrel was most rotten) being the worst President, there's really no comparison to Wilson.
Was hoping he would get canceled for the racism of his 1915 decisions with the army, but BLM failed to do us a solid there.
Putting Wilson in power is one reason I would support chipping Teddy Roosevelt off Mount Rushmore.
Great points.
Yes, that is interesting that they didn't cancel Wilson, but then again, he was their academic/professor "smartest guy in the room" president. Kind of like his girlfriend (not literally) their eugenics queen Margeret Sanger. They don't cancel her either, even though she was the evil behind "planned" parenthood.
The Republicans have really added to the federal leviathan (Nixon and the various alphabet soups that grew life during his administration, revenues doubled under Reagan but spending went through the roof, W gave us the "Patriot" Act, endless wars, "low sulfur" diesel, bank bailouts, and kept running his mouth the weeks leading up to the election to ensure that people were sufficiently tired of him and they voted for BHO rather than McCain. My wife and I remember saying, "just shut up", "get out of the spotlight", yet he couldn't help himself or he was doing what he was told... I still think McCain had a good shot if W hadn't done the bank bailouts and his mouth running leading up to election day.
My top five worst presidents that did the most to harm the Republic: Wilson #1, LBJ #2, BHO #3, FJB #4, with W very, very close behind at #5.
You forgot the 18th amendment, originally the Volstead Act, meant to shut down German American biergartens. This from the same President who banned the performance of works of Beethoven. His insufferable superiority, echoed in modern woke sorts, is captured in a story by the late, great Angelo Codevilla:
"I remember a classmate of mine saying, 'Why, man, canтАЩt you let anything alone?' I said, ' I let everything alone that you can show me is not itself moving in the wrong direction, but I am not going to let those things alone that I see are going downhill.'"
Downhill, of course, being anyone making a decision a Prog does not agree with. German-American Mencken captured this sense from Wilson when he wrote that Puritanism is the sneaking suspicion that someone may be happy.
Hold on...you also forgot about the 19th Amendment -- giving women the right to vote. When I trace back to slide of America into a country where feminization rules, this is the starting point. Women are different than men; we can agree on that. And they tend to cast their votes for the most photogenic and the con-artists who claim to care about the electorate ("I feel your pain.") Women vote using their "feelings" about candidates rather than use logic to vote for those who understand and want to protect the constitution, along with the power of laissez-faire capitalism to secure and improve our future.