There have been three presidents I've despised...

[Comatose Sphagetti]

They are Ronald Reagan, Bush II, and of course, our current president. My middle finger does an automatic salute whenever I hear or see them. Reflexive.

BUT, with our current president, this is the first and only time in my adult life I have despised the people who voted for him.

Is this a first for anyone else?

[rurallib]

1. No Nixon?

I had a white hot hate for that man.

edit to add - I had a hate for those that voted for Nixon, but not like I have for Trump voters.

[Greywing]

4. I did too but I'm 61 ..

Many DUers may be too young to remember Nixon (that disgusting POS)

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. median age in the US is 38; most people weren't alive when Nixon was president (n/t)

[Greywing]

15. Well that's information I didn't know .... now I feel positively ancient!

... 38 is just too young for that to be the median age.

[SCantiGOP]

13. Nixon was the worst President ever

Until Bush became the worst until Trump became the by-a-mile worst.

[StevieM]

21. I thought Reagan was much worse than Nixon.

And when the time comes, let's give Mike Pence a chance. He may prove the be the worst ever, even worse that Donald Trump.

I cannot imagine that Scott Walker would be any better than Trump if he had been elected. And he would certainly be stunningly corrupt and abusive of his power.

There is so much focus on Trump that some people forget just how evil some other Republicans are.

[SCantiGOP]

29. My hatred of Nixon

had as much to do with Viet Nam as it did domestic policy and corruption.
But I will accept your basic premise that Reagan did more harm to the country if you or a family member wasn't killed fighting an immoral war.

[StevieM]

31. Good point about Vietnam. And now we know that he was interfering with the peace negotiations. (eom)

[napi21]

32. Reagan was by far the worst...up till now! Remember it was Uncle Ronnie that sponsored the

"Trickle Down Theory" and the Pubs are Still hooked on it! His actions started the war on our unions (the air traffic controllers), eliminated the interest deductions for all the smaller taxes that helped out the little guy (department store credit cards) & many other smaller deductions the average earners could use if they kept good records. Many of the things he did are still in effect today. That IMO makes him the worst prez just because of the longevity of his changes,

The actual results of the Con administration is yet to be seen. It's still way too soon,

[dem4decades]

11. I hated Nixon too but he did create EPA and was in favor of universal healthcare.

Compared to our present asshole he's looking better by the day.

[Rhett Cohen]

39. Universal Basic Income, too...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-income-welfare/

Some of these brilliant capitalists realize people need money to buy things, and if no one has money, no one buys anything, and if no one buys anything, they go broke.

[StevieM]

25. It is possible that he or she was not yet alive, or is too young to remember Nixon.

He is before my time too.

I always hated Reagan. I never hated another president as much until Trump came along. That goes for losing candidates too, like Dole, McCain and Romney.

Ironically, I sometimes feel like I am less hard on Trump compared to other people on this board because I won't stop attacking James Comey. I am frightened by how many people are glossing over his actions. The fact that he doesn't like Trump, and is willing to investigate him, does not mitigate what he did. Repeatedly.

[Rhett Cohen]

41. After he lost, I started to like funnyman Dole, like where was that guy during the campaign?

Plus, if he were just starting out in the house, he'd be a centrist Dem these days, most likely.

[The Blue Flower]

2. My hatred is for those who know what he is but still support him

Some of his voters just wanted to believe the fantasy. His enablers in DC know it was pure fantasy and that he's 120% corrupt, but they're content to use him to the detriment of all.

[SJMULE]

33. Being from NJ

seeing what he did to AC and working for Trump myself. I have a white hot distaste for the apparent ignorance of his career and the man he always was by those who believed his campaign BS.

[Rhett Cohen]

42. I still don't get those "This rich plurocrat has my best inerests at heart" idiot voters who are

clinging to that fantasy harder than their guns, Bibles, and/or cousin/girlfriends.

[liberal N proud]

3. A concure

[Different Drummer]

5. I am with you on the three presidents. n/t

[LisaM]

6. Pretty close.

I never felt that Bush voters hated me. I think Trump voters do.

[StevieM]

22. They were pretty abusive at the time of the Iraq War. Remember how they openly said

that liberals hate America?

[LisaM]

24. Yes, but it didn't feel personal at the time of the election.

I really think a lot of it felt that way because our candidate was a woman.

[StevieM]

27. Good point. It felt personal in between the elections.

And, yes, gender issues played a huge factor in this election. It wasn't so much that people were saying "you're a woman so you don't get the job." It was about a woman not having the same ability to push back on smear campaigns and attacks, which meant there was no limit to how far they could be taken.

[Rhett Cohen]

43. I'm pretty sure those are the same people though.

[Doreen]

7. I did not like Reagan voters but

I despise trump voters.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Until Bush II, Nixon was #1 on my shit list.

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I had no use for Reagan, either; but Nixon and Bush II had me yelling at my TV on an almost daily basis. I even kept the little black & white portable TV I watched Nixon's resignation speech on for some 30 years as a sort of souvenir. I couldn't quite bring myself to loathe his voters (many of whom wouldn't admit having voted for him after Watergate) because a lot of my relatives were among them. My great-aunt, who had a sort of a shrine to him in her living room, continued to insist he'd been framed.

Reagan voters annoyed me but in those days Republicans were considered "normal" (though by the end of Reagan's second term they seemed to be a good deal less so). People who voted for Bush the first time were annoying because so many apparently voted for him because they thought he was someone they'd like to have a beer with. My own parents liked him because he seemed (to them, not to me) like "a nice guy." After the second election, though, Bush voters started to piss me off because they didn't seem to get what a big fuckup Iraq was - or the fact that it was based on lies. McCain voters pissed me off mostly because it didn't bother them that Sarah Palin would be an old man's heartbeat away from the presidency.

But Trump voters? A whole 'nother breed, and a whole hell of a lot of them. I can't even comprehend why someone with two brain cells to rub together would vote for someone so galactically unqualified and personally reprehensible. Stupid? Ignorant? Racist? Just mean? All of the above? I'm still gobsmacked.

[Rhett Cohen]

45. Weren't Reagan voters basically the first hyperconsumerist generation?

And that kind of lessens the hate for me, seeing as they grew up with a television, and Madison Avenue, using Edward Bernays propaganda model, would be more inclined to vote in dime store John Wayne, and not really think about the potential drawbacks to doing so, since they'd been groomed to listen to marketing from childhood. Of course there were the Dominionists, Prosperity Gospelists, racists and other kooks, but he did get a high number of union members and Democrats who saw him as a pleasant grandpa version of the Gipper.

[jrthin]

9. Yes, it is. Truth to what you have said. nt

[treestar]

12. Yes.

It is different in this case. They have truly put us all in danger due to their hatred and stupidity.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Add Nixon and it makes four for me.

[NightWatcher]

16. I don't despise him as much as I despise the people who voted for him

and the people who allowed Russia to put him in place.

The voters are idiots and assholes. We told them all of this would happen but they didn't care to hear.

The people like McTurtle and Ryan who knew better and sold out America for a few $$$ should rot in federal prison.

[Rhett Cohen]

46. So much for the tolerant left...

[indie_voter]

17. Those are my three too!

I was too young to really understand Nixon. I was 10 when he resigned (I'm 53).

And yes. I know what you mean. I have a really hard time even talking to anybody who voted for this fool.

[jimlup]

18. Not all of the people but yes, this is the first time

that I have despised the core base of the people supporting a President. These people are the vile racist xenophobic members of our society.

Many of the people who voted for Trump though were just ignorant. Some of them already have buyers remorse and it will get much worse.

[GP6971]

19. A neighbor

had multiple Trump signs on his lawn during the campaign. He kept them up until last month and now they are all gone. Never have talked to him, but looking forward to running into him some day.

[Greybnk48]

20. No. I hated the Reagan voters and the Bush 2 voters too.

Reagan voters the most, until now. I think I need to add Nixon as well. I didn't like him at all, but I didn't hate him. I loathed Reagan, and in the end, hated Bush and his people.

[hrmjustin]

26. I was too young to understand politics under Reagan but I hated baby bush first.

[JTFrog]

28. I hated Bush supporters. They were pretty much as ignorant as Trump's but not as bold. nt

[Martin Eden]

30. I despised those who voted for GW in 2004

IMO exploiting the grief and patriotism of 9/11 to launch a costly war in Iraq based on lies was the most egregious betrayal of public trust by a president in our nation's history.

Given the chance, tRump will do worse.

[drmeow]

34. I think my top is Reagan

because he paved the way for Fox News by fast tracking Murdock's citizenship and that is what is really destroying this country.

Trump is tied with Reagan. I have two friends who voted for Trump and it is hard for me to despise them but I don't really interact with them anymore and I wouldn't really care if I never saw them again (I just can't bring myself to unfriend them on FB although I have their feeds hidden).

[Foamfollower]

35. I've despised six presidents in my life.

Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and now, more than any president in my lifetime, Trump.

[GReedDiamond]

36. I start with Nixon...then Reagan, Dubya, Twitler...

...not a fan of Poppy Bush either, but since he's so old and feeble, I don't think too much about him.

Is he still jumping out of airplanes?

Also, Dubya misAdmin should be Cheney/Dubya in levels of despicableness (is that a word?).

If I had to dig any of em up, living or dead, to be the Least Despised Despised Preznit again, I'd havta go with Tricky Dick Nixon!

[TeamPooka]

37. I'm 4 with Nixon added as a bonus for being older.

[bdjhawk]

38. Reagan has always been the worst to me

as he is the one who started this stupid obsessive hating of and wanting to decimate the federal government (all the while those states who hate it the most are sucking in the most funds from the feds). Remember his wanting to make the federal government the size of a postage stamp! Now, anytime the Repugs want to get their minions to support screwing the poor, minorities, women, etc. and give huge tax breaks to corporations so they can cut social programs, all they have to do is couch it in terms of a "gubbermint" program or what "the gubbermint" wants and the lemmings will scream about how bad whatever program it is. Whenever he would be on TV with his fake sincere actor voice, I would mute it.

Superiority of the wealthy and white superiority also came back in fashion under Reagan.

What really gets me is how the RWNJs idolize Reagan, especially for being so tough on the Communists/Russia (puffing their chests out and getting tears in their eyes when they see a clip of "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall&quot , yet show their absolute hypocrisy by completely looking the other way when the Russians put their own pawn in the White House!!!

About a week after tRump's inauguration, I thought to myself "am I going to wear out this mute button" since I had used it so much in just the first week of this miserable administration!

Of course, this new guy sets a whole new standard of low.

[Rhett Cohen]

40. Those three are pretty bad, but McKinley and Buchanan really grind my gears, so to speak.

[Meowmee]

44. Add Nixon to that list

This is very different. It's a matter of the whole democracy. Yes I despise these wacko fascists for what they've done. I think it's a turning point to realize the pure evil that caused this and that those people will never change. Nixon voters were just as bad in many ways- some are also drumof voters.