• Squirrelknight@lemmy.world
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      From bad to worst:

      10th: Nixon

      9th: Bush

      8th: Wilson

      7th: Hoover

      6th: Tyler

      5th: Harding

      4th: Pierce

      3rd: Trump

      2nd: A. Johnson

      1st: Buchanan

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        How is Reagan not on that list? Half of the problems in the United States could be traced back to him.

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          He’d be in the bottom 15. The problem with ranking Reagan is that most of the big issues with him didn’t become fully apparent until long after he was out of office. When you make a list like this it’s kinda hard to fit all the awful US presidents in a top 10.

          All the president’s between 1840 and 1860 alone deserve to be somewhere in the bottom 15 for endlessly supporting slavery and setting the stage for the civil war, which makes fitting Reagan in kinda difficult.

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          Andrew Johnson’s failures persist to this day. He was the 17th president. (Took over after Lincoln was assassinated and refused to seriously punish the confederate leadership)

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          Only because we have a firm understanding of their legacies. If I made this list again in 40 years there’s a good chance he’s in 1st place.