UPDATE 3.14.23: I originally wrote this piece during the disastrous Obama era. Obama was bad but didn’t achieve the lasting harm that Woodrow Wilson did. However, the vote for “Worst President in American History” is now once again up for grabs as there is no telling how high Joe Biden’s dramatic failures in both foreign […]
Barack Obama’s Drastic Steps that Led to Russiagate
For two years President Trump’s presidency was inundated with the “baseless investigation into unsubstantiated allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election,” report Federalist Bright editors. Between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page’s salacious and implicatory text message and Michael Flynn’s recent exoneration after being scapegoated, the corruption of the justice department and FBI seemed unending. […]
The Worst President in American History, Part IV
In Wilson’s War, historian Jim Powell recounts: By the end of 1917, Western Europe had been embroiled in war for three years, but it was deadlocked. The United States was still on the sidelines. All (Allied Powers) had suffered horrendous losses. Neither side was able to achieve decisive victory and dictate surrender terms to the […]
The Worst President in American History, Part III
In Wilson’s War—How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led To Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War II, historian Jim Powell explains how WWI was stalemated for three years. From the war’s outset, it appeared unlikely that one side would be able to dominate the other. —The Germans had better generals-less inclined to squander the lives of […]
The Worst President in American History, Part II
In Wilson’s War, Jim Powell writes: The consequences of Wilson’s fateful decision to enter World War I played out long after he died in 1924, because of Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin. Those ruthless killers would not have come to power as they did if the United States had stayed out of the war. Their crimes […]
