Broke: Trump is the worst president because norms.
Woke: Buchanan or Andrew Johnson were the worst since they betrayed their country to uphold slaver power.
Bespoke: Jimmy Carter is the worst since the neoliberal turn and the Volcker Shock destroyed the economies of the 3rd world and set back the global movement towards liberation and socialism back by a 100 years.
I think you could make an argument for Jefferson, given how the Louisiana Purchase set the stage for a lot of the subsequent expansion and genocide. It’s probably inevitable that America would expand to some degree, but it could have been slower if they didn’t make the purchase, possibly resulting in a smaller and less powerful America.
Of course, there’s also the part where he owned slaves and upheld slavery.
For the normbrained libs, Jefferson also greatly expanded the power of the executive through the Louisiana Purchase and an undeclared war in the Mediterranean. Just from a “disregarding what the constitution says” perspective he was bad.
Broke: Trump is the worst president because norms.
Woke: Buchanan or Andrew Johnson were the worst since they betrayed their country to uphold slaver power.
Bespoke: Jimmy Carter is the worst since the neoliberal turn and the Volcker Shock destroyed the economies of the 3rd world and set back the global movement towards liberation and socialism back by a 100 years.
roughly 2070s? god i hope not. i don’t think we’re going to make it that long into climate hell under the current system
Some of those years have a way of getting compressed down into weeks
I think you could make an argument for Jefferson, given how the Louisiana Purchase set the stage for a lot of the subsequent expansion and genocide. It’s probably inevitable that America would expand to some degree, but it could have been slower if they didn’t make the purchase, possibly resulting in a smaller and less powerful America.
Of course, there’s also the part where he owned slaves and upheld slavery.
For the normbrained libs, Jefferson also greatly expanded the power of the executive through the Louisiana Purchase and an undeclared war in the Mediterranean. Just from a “disregarding what the constitution says” perspective he was bad.
cw sexual violence
He also raped his slaves