Buchanan was clearly the worst President ever by most standards — he precipitated the Civil War! If you are concerned about genocide you would rank Andrew Jackson as the worst. Wilson was actually more successful than most; he got the US a central bank for the first time in almost 80 years, he reversed over 50 years of destructive trade policies, he enacted the first income tax, he had his son in law save the US economy from Depression at the beginning of World War I, and he successfully managed the successful war effort. Since the Civil War, there are a number of Presidents who were clearly worse than Wilson: Andrew Johnson, Grant, Harding, and Hoover for certain and probably Trump unless he pulls off a miracle and stops the coronavirus. Note that Trump’s favorite President is Jackson.
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