Who was the worst Republican president after Nixon?
Before you say Trump, consider how bad Reagan, Papa Doc, and Baby Doc Bush were.
TRUMP--
* minimized Covid threat and 1 million Americans died
* gave vent to the worst id impulses of the American psyche: enshrined selfishness, encouraged violence and race baiting
* ran roughshod over legal and civil traditions such as conceding election loss, protection of secret documents, and not fomenting a riot when one loses and election.
* used the office of the Presidency to enrich himself by bribes and graft--foreigners shoveled money into Trump-owned businesses, he charged the secret service to stay in his hotels etc.
* refused to set up blind trusts and never revealed tax returns as promised
* uttered over 30 thousand confirmed LIES while President
* spent some 300 days over four years on the golf course, at a cost of 144 million dollars
BABY DOC BUSH
* unlike Trump's claims about Biden, Bush actually DID steal a US Presidential election by not allowing a recount in Florida, where he technically "won" by 537 votes out of 6 million cast
* ignored Clinton's warnings about terrorism resulting in 9-11
* watched Bin Laden and his terrorist cabal escape capture for eight years
* cynically manipulated the country's outrage about 9-11 to gin up an invasion of Iraq
* killed directly or indirectly 200 thousand Iraqi civilians to steal their oil
* spent 1.6 TRILLION US dollars in Iraq
* ignored housing bubble which collapsed the US and world economy
REAGAN
* cut a deal with Iranian terrorists holding American hostages to not release those hostages until after Reagan took office, to help insure his victory. They released the hostages on Jan. 20, 1981, the same day that Reagan was sworn in.
* later, re-paid these Islamic terrorists by shipping them arms to oppress, imprison, and murder their citizens and start a war with Iraq, and used the money to fund a right-wing death squad (the Contras) in Nicaragua. Ignored evidence that Iran used poison gas in Halabja and vetoed sanctions Congress placed on Iran.
* ignored the AIDS crisis which killed about 100 thousand Americans in the 1980's
* invaded Grenada, which put the US back into the League of Big Country Imperialists (after the sobering lesson of Vietnam)
* put US troops into Lebanon until 200 Marines were killed by a suicide bomber, proving that the suicide bombing is effective against us -- which led to two decades of suicide bombing attacks against the US including the embassy bombings in Africa, the US Cole attack, and of course 9-11.
* spent 1.35 TRILLON dollars on the military in his first four years, or 6,000 dollars per person. This sent the National Debt soaring after it had been steadily going down since WW2.
* despite the massive increase in military spending, he cut taxes on the rich ( "trickle down economics" ) while raising taxes on the working class
* signed into law federal income taxes on Social Security for the first time in its history
* crushed the PATCO (Air Traffic Controller's union) strike by bringing in scabs and signaling to his rich, corporate backers that union-busting was now perfectly legal
So . . . who's the worst one of them all?
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of thousands of us who fought in the war... And don't forget the disabled ...........My Senator Tammy Ducksworth is
disabled from the Iraq War. That was horrendous, and for what purpose? You tell me....:
