• Squirrelknight@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    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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        8 minutes ago

        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.

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      16 hours ago

      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 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.