Hitler wrote that Andrew Jackson was his inspiration for the Holocaust. He was far and away the worst of the worst. Other bad ones include:
Johnson (elected as a compromise for the south after the civil war, enacted a ton of racist legislation to take as many rights away from newly freed slaves),
Reagan (funded and armed middle eastern terrorists, funded and armed Latin american terrorists, flooded inner cities with cocaine to raise the money they needed to fund terrorists, pushed the war on drugs to punish black people for buying the cocaine he sold them, defunded AIDS research once he found out that it mostly killed gay people, whole list of other shit. Probably the second worst),
Bush 2 (Worst living president for sure. Bush 1 humiliated himself trying to invade Iran, so his large adult son opportunistically used 9/11 --an event that intelligence agencies, at best, knew was going to happen-- to springboard the middle eastern invasion that we're still mired in. Millions of people dead in our two decade Muslim hunt/Oil heist. Some of the worst war crimes the US has ever committed. Also, the patriot act and his part in whipping the country up into a jingoistic nationalist fervor that we probably won't recover)
Honorable Mention: literally every other president lmao
for real on johnson though. imagine if the radical republicans won. they were so fucking close, too
I'm not knowledgeable on that era, but from what I've read on Johnson I've come to understand that pretty much every piece of explicitly or implicitly racist legislation can be traced directly back to precedent set during his administration. Not that America has been anything other than a colonial settler state, but stuff like literacy tests for voting and the attitude of "well, it's not racist because it never mentions race, even if this law was written with the express purpose of harming black people" comes from southerners trying to find loopholes in the emancipation.
If anyone's got some good resources to link me to, I'd much appreciate it
That I have living memory of Bush Jr. , he used 9/11 to pass the patriot act and started the mass surveillance that we now live under. Then started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which most of the western world followed him into. He also prevented action on climate change when it would have made a greater difference.
Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were fucking terrible, but W. Bush led to 50 million displaced, a million dead in Iraq alone, galvanization of Salafist groups around the glove, a resurgence of the defense industry, the standardization of private military contractors...
It's on another scale. We don't even know the full repercussions.
One could speculate that if not for Johnson's compromises in the wake of the Civil War, we might not have had the same level of resurgence of Confederate sympathizers in the 20th century. Without southern white supremacist populism, Prescott Bush probably wouldn't have had a political career, and therefore neither would George H.W. or George W. (The same probably foes for Reagan.) Jeb! unfortunately exists across all timelines and quantum realms of possibility.
Hm... maybe. But this is America we're talking about... even with a 'complete' Reconstruction under Lincoln, that Southern populism would still exist.
Reagan for putting us on the neo conservative path we’re on right now. Also for not giving a shit about aids deaths and starting the drug war.
Maybe the one who nuked 250k + Japanese civilians for literally no reason but to flex?
Presidents don't matter. Presidents are for white hero worship.
You could go back in time and assassinate every single US president since 1950 and we'd still be on the same track, +/- 10 years
