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Jonathan Bernstein: I was one of the political scientists who participated in a rank the presidents survey and it was easy to place Trump dead last, given everything. But the truth is that even if Trump had followed and accepted the law, including the Constitutional emoluments provision, and even if he didnt provoke an insurrection in support of his bid to overturn an election he lost, and even if he didnt have a history of sexual assault, and even if he didnt regularly make bigoted remarks and encourage bigotry
he was still quite a bit worse at the regular parts of presidenting than any of the modern presidents, at least.
Its hard to know where to begin, and Im obviously not going to convince anyone in a few short paragraphs or even a full item, but even given how important all that other stuff is his gross incompetency at the job is worth remembering.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/14/trump-was-incredibly-bad-at-presidenting/
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trump-was-incredibly-bad-at-presidenting?publication_id=2456093&post_id=144596097&isFreemail=true&r=2fku&triedRedirect=true
tanyev
(42,778 posts)and fealty that was rightfully his all along. The concept of serving the country is abhorrent to him and any thought of competent governance is irrelevant.
C_U_L8R
(45,058 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,110 posts)Like Reagan in many ways but more evil.
TSExile
(2,678 posts)Reagan was governor of California, and before that was president of the Screen Actors Guild. So he wasn't coming in with absolutely no experience like the diarrhea stain on humanity did.
He was never a president...he just occupied the White House. He sought to divide others and not unite them. Did he ever do anything to help anyone who wasn't rich? Enough said?
twodogsbarking
(10,110 posts)control the planet.
Ping Tung
(868 posts)However, some disagree with his assessment and regard him as a clownish asshole.
republianmushroom
(14,183 posts)Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting, Yup, very poor. Just wanting to line his own pockets and the hell with the country.. IMO
Poiuyt
(18,141 posts)Trump is officially the worst president in history. It won't make a difference to his cult, but if anyone is at all ambivalent about the election, the knowledge of just how bad Trump is might help. I've been troubled about the fact that a lot of people still think that Trump is better than Biden on the economy.