The Secession Winter of 1860-1...the Depression Winter of 1932-33...and now, the Covid Winter...

[First Speaker]

...of 2020-21. Three times in our history, we've had Presidential successions taking place during national emergencies. And all three times, we've had the same pattern: an unworthy president, in over their heads, as the emergency deepened. Buchanan sat back and didn't lift a finger as the South seceded, bringing on a civil war that Lincoln had to fight. Hoover, sitting back as the economy collapsed into total chaos, refusing to fight the crisis and instead trying to pressure FDR into signing on to his--Hoover's--policies, which the electorate had just overwhelmingly rejected, leaving Roosevelt to clean up his mess. And now. A pandemic out of control, and two months ahead of a President utterly unworthy, not caring how many Americans die. Not even cooperating with his successor in any way, much less helping him to arrive at any solutions. Buchanan and Hoover were failures, but not even they were as totally soulless and vile as this failure...

[raging moderate]

1. Grant wrote that Buchanan secretly aided the Confederates.

In General US Grant's memoirs, he wrote that Buchanan and other Confederate sympathizers in the government had secretly moved stockpiles of various equipment and armaments and vehicles from the North to the South, so that the Northern army and navy found themselves short on these items when the South declared war.

[roamer65]

3. Buchanan and Dump are the definite two worst presidents.

Hands down.

[relayerbob]

7. Trump is as Confederate as one gets

[raging moderate]

9. Yes, a Copperhead.

We had these people in the North, back then. And their spiritual heirs are still here. Copperheads. Like snakes in the grass.

[essaynnc]

2. what happened in 1918 or so

during the Spanish flu pandem??? no clue if it was an election year????

[Wounded Bear]

4. 1920 was the next election year...nt

[hedda_foil]

6. President Wilson had a stroke in October1919 and his wife ran the country from then on.

Harding took over in 1921.

[roamer65]

5. World War I.

By the time WW1 ended, the second wave of the flu pandemic was raging. The troops coming home in November didn’t help either.

[yaesu]

8. We will see the worst winter in a hundred years as covid takes 100's of 1000's more lives

and the economy collapses under the strain. Homeless population will skyrocket, hunger & unrest. There will be food shortages, healthcare crisis, mass unemployment, all because we will not have any federal leadership through Jan 21st.