Move over, President Buchanan
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We now have a new leader for "worst President in U.S. history." Trump was always bad, intellectually incurious, an ineffective negotiator, a shoddy statesman, a pathetic rhetorician. He is divisive, mistake-prone and emanates falsehoods like a dog sheds hair. He is one of only four Presidents to ever march the path to impeachment.
But he always had the economy to hang his hat on. No longer. He has now overseen a historic stock market plummet and most of it can be traced back to his approach to a pandemic. The fact he had two months' advantage of watching the virus' approach from the other side of the globe only magnifies his ineptitude.
It's bad enough already but isn't over. In the first two and half months of the new year he has tanked the economy and thrown the nation into panic. In the seven months remaining until the culmination of his re-election campaign he is capable of far more missteps, some even more drastic than many imagine.
James Buchanan may have accelerated the nation's path to Civil War but Trump might do something similar. His reflexive reliance on divisive tactics and speech could play into any attempt at enacting the Stafford Act or otherwise attempting to stave off imminent defeat in November. His most loyal states could attempt to follow his lobbying for delay while others push forward to remove Trump at the polls. The fallout could be calamitous.
Good job, Donnie Two Scoops. You've run your presidency like the rest of your life. Too bad so many will end up paying for it.
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