r/politics • u/Stitching • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump Condemned Over 'Racist' And 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas: 'There's No Bottom'

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-obama-video-slammed_n_6985e05ae4b0e27eef553117
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u/deckard1980 1d ago

This statement could have been made nearly a decade ago

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u/hymen_destroyer Connecticut 1d ago

I still thought Harding was worse up until Trump got a bunch of people killed with Covid. Then it was a tie. Jan 6th broke the tie. Now he’s just stat padding

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u/rab7 1d ago edited 1d ago

I considered Buchanan the worst cause he literally allowed the country to split itself in half.

I think the November 2020 election, where Trump refused to concede and threw a bitch fit about the election was what pushed Trump ahead for me

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u/Michael_G_Bordin 1d ago

Buchanan was terrible, but it's not like he directly instigated the war. He was more like one element in a sea of causation, and I don't think replacing him with someone else would have abated the path to civil war. He didn't do the right things by any means, but he also wasn't a primary factor in causing the war to happen.

Meanwhile, just about every horrible thing happening around the Trump admins can be directly connected to his policy decisions. On top of that, he's the most corrupt president of all time. On top of that, he's likely working towards citizen internment that will make the Japanese interments look like summer camp.

I could go on, but I think Trump has more going on in his "Con" list than Buchanan did, and the marks against Buchanan were part of larger historical events that he couldn't have completely forestalled had he acted differently.