Will history be kind

[ousdahl]

to this administration?

[Sparko]

Oh no. But thankfully, we'll have a future now.

[ousdahl]

Let’s try to objectively list things they did accomplish, and/or should get credit for.

They did just throw Bristol Bay a bone.

[Deleted User 310]

We needed a thread for this? LOL

[Deleted User 310]

Let’s try to objectively list things they did accomplish, and/or should get credit for.

They did just throw Bristol Bay a bone.

Funding for HBCUs.

Didn't start world war 3.

[defixione]

Didn't/haven't yet infected the entire US population with Covid.

[pdub]

Nixon and to a lesser extend Johnson get trashed in surveys of American History typically.
Trump's easily gonna top that.

[Sparko]

His legacy is one trying to undo things out of spite. His memorial will be a section of fence removed from the border and filled with graffiti.

[Cascadia]

Trump will easily go down as the worst President in history. By a significant margin.

[pdub]

I think Hoover will stick.
Tariffs at the wrong time.
Worst depression.

[zsn]

The GWB administrations were very bad also but they are being cut some slack, greater slack with each passing year, because GWB himself has comported himself well and most of his sycophants slunk off into deserved oblivion (Rummy, Wolfowitz, that AG guy).

One can certainly be assured that we won’t be afforded that luxury by DJT. He’ll be out there everyday for the foreseeable future reminding everyone as to why he was not only a horrible president but also a horrible person. His spawn would be doing the same.

[ousdahl]

I think Hoover will stick.
Tariffs at the wrong time.
Worst depression.

The vacuum cleaner guy?

Yeah, he sucked.

[sdoyel]

They started a Space Force?

[pdub]

Bush was a figurehead.
Cheney was the slime behind a war to line America's/his own pockets.

[MICHHAWK]

Imagine that. The intolerant liberals dislike all past republican presidents. Shocker.

[defixione]

Eisenhower was the last true Republican. I liked him.

[Mjl]

The peace deal between Israel and Sudan was good. Not meaningless like the UAE and Bahrain deals.

[Sparko]

The Sudan deal was really realpolitik for Sudan and its economic needs. As for hating Republican presidents, the last two were epically bad. Harding Coolidge Hoover and Nixon had some issues. TR was very good.

[zsn]

Imagine that. The intolerant liberals dislike all past republican presidents. Shocker.

Other than demonstrably running up the debt and deficit (by starting ill-advised wars) what can the past Republicans administrations, at least going back to Reagan, point as objective accomplishments?

If your answer is tax-cuts you automatically fail - those have been shown to have been detrimental.

[pdub]

Imagine that. The intolerant liberals dislike all past republican presidents. Shocker.

I think Bush senior did fine.
I'm sure there's a lot more to Sadaam invading Kuwait - even that USA may have caused it to happen - but I think he was right to step in.
From what I remember he tried to work with the other side of the aisle.

Bush jr was a charismatic guy who was smarter than we thought - he jumped into a war he didn't need to go into - and while some of this was definitely out of his admins hands - the lack of regulation for banks lead to a major recession.
Trump was a clown who stepped into an economy roaring back because of the previous administration who took credit for it -- and then he became dangerous as he gained power.

Sounds like you are making grand assumptions about 'libs' - who they are and who they like.
And you know what they say about assumptions.