Worst three presidents of all time:

Lincoln, Wilson, FDR

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Bad take.

Lincoln ended slavery with the emancipation proclamation.

Improvements in agriculture technology would have eventually ended slavery without killing 655,000 people.

And without leaving a residue of racism feeding off of simmering resentment for the next 150+ years.

We can play what ifs but what was the realistic timeline? There were about 4M slaves in the US in 1860. Peaceful emancioation was not imminent. How many years of their nominal freedom was 655k worth? It's not obvious that electing a tyrant was not the right thing to do at that time.

LMFAO

I’m not ‘murican so can’t comment on Presidents, but… the PMs I grew up thinking (was told) were the worst turned out, on reflection, to be on the better side of bad

Churchill was the worst PM of all time.

why? i'm argentine so i have no clue of UKs PM quality aside from simping WW2 memes and videos

Ooh Blair will be pissed.

I’m from NZ and that Churchill fella sent the ANZACs to Gallipoli so I’ve never been a fan…

Good heuristic: invert list of best/worst political leaders for an accurate representation from the perspective of the people, not the regime.

The Confederate museum had a ton of books smelling Lincoln. Not surprising, but I was always curious to go down that rabbit hole and see what was there.

I would love some elaboration

All 3 of these Presidents were elected and then re-elected (FDR 3 times) by the American public. As much as you may not like them for things you prioritize in 2024, the contemporaneous majorities disagree with you, and these 3 were responding to their constituents at the time.

I’d change the order - Wilson is by far the worst. Probably FDR second. Lincoln set the standard for fighting wars of choice, however, which continues unabated.

Insta follow! Hands down Wilson, then FDR, then everybody except Calvin Coolidge (and Washington, Jefferson, JQ Adams).

I see a common theme to those three.

Biden wins the worst award in my book.

Is this bait? Lol

Worst three president of all time:

ALL OF THEM

And all of the falsely "elected" presidents too.

Nixon???

Wilson, Wilson, and Wilson

I still haven't drunken the anti-Lincoln koolaid. I get it, he was a tyrant. But when you shun natural laws for long enough, you end up with the law of the jungle and all that comes with it. I haven't heard a credible theory about how you avoid Lincoln without 2-4 more generations of chattel slavery.