Yes. The putting Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps, keeping Jews fleeing the Nazis from entering the country, tariffs, price controls, policies that encouraged wage rigidity, and raising taxes in a depression were terrific and just. I like how he encouraged people to snitch on store owners who didn't sell Blue Eagle crap. Great hero of civil liberties.

I wonder the same thing if Jimmy Carter had been re-elected. He dealt with the Soviets passive-aggressively by just not talking to them. He thought the way to deal with inflation was to raise taxes in an economic downturn. He kept price controls on gas which caused shortages and then thought a better way to deal with shortages with a windfall profits tax.

I sure miss tension with the Soviet Union, gas lines, and the double digit inflation that Carter opted not to start addressing until Reagan made it a campaign issue. America would be so much better if we stayed the Carter course and looked like France.

Ummm... I guess serious policy thinker Jimmy Carter didn't have access to freshman economics textbooks at that time.

We live in the future. We can see Jimmy Carter made terrible decision after terrible decision and the decisions of his Republican successor were generally correct.

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You misunderstand all of this. Carter/Volcker prevented runaway inflation by bravely raising interest rates. The Reagan/Greenspan era of economics has been to push interest rates down and down and down almost regardless of the state of the economy and the GOP adds huge tax cuts to the mix and huge spending. Their economic policy is based purely on short term adrenaline rushes and never prudent policy during periods of economic growth.

Carter had the freshman economics textbooks, but he also had the more advanced ones.

And what the **** did Reagan do to the Soviets? How do conservatives simultaneously hold the theories that communism sucks and can't sustain itself and at the same time Reagan blew it up?

Trickle down was correct? lolque

Lol at all these non-Lincoln answers.

Carter continued negotiating with the Soviets (SALT) until they invaded Afghanistan. After that he initiated a military expansion in response. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

We've let the Right re-write the Carter story and it's a huge lie. Instead of being ashamed of Carter we should embrace what he stood for and correct the record.

BTW not suggesting Carter is the greatest, just that he is way under rated.

Carter 2020? He’s not that much older than Bernie...

In between those age extremes we have Jerry Brown.

1. George Washington. The chance of the experiment in democracy lasting more than a few years was small. But thanks to him it did.

Close second. Lincoln. Not for keeping the country together but for bringing freedom to many more people.

3. Grant. Not for his presidency, but for being the real instrument that allowed Lincoln to bring freedom to many more people.

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I'll say FDR over Lincoln and Washington in a three man race.

I have go with Lincoln. All presidents have huge black marks. It is the nature of job. But Washington's (owning slaves) and FDR's (internment) are huge unforced errors. Lincoln, his black marks are mainly suspension of haebeus corpus and not prioritizing ending slavery over maintenance of the union. Those are really pale gray marks compared to so many presidents, and they are difficult judgment calls in an extremely difficult situation.

Carter can walk Trump's dog? I didn't even know that Trump has a dog.

Learn something new every day.

socialist.

must i cite?

created massive entitlement society

See FDR also

FDR gave us ridiculous government massiveness. For what? Building roads? Also incited Pearl Harbor and sent Jews back to Europe. No thanks.

Lincoln- Hmmm. Income tax. Fake paper money. No Habeas Corpus. Invaded a sovereign country. Sic Semper Tyraninis.

Washington GOAT

Carter- 18% interest. Let 52 Americans be held for 444 days in Iran. Failed to Entebbe them out. Worst Prez ever imo Seriously, before this happened my parents told me the most valuable thing on earth was an American passport lolz

I voted for Mondale. I was young. I was at Berkeley.

Reagan was the GOAT.

I'm going to go with JFK or Obama... yaya JFK was a womanizer and all and maybe his foreign policies weren't great... but he championed Civil Rights...

And Obama helped bring about equal rights in form of SCOTUS gay marriage decision.

You really wanna rail about big government when it comes to FDR and then turn around and say Reagan? lol

I voted for Dukakis when I was young at Berkeley.

Obama had nothing to do with it. It was the result of lower court judges, mostly Reagan appointees, declaring defense of marriage laws unconstitutional.

Lol @ that

Kagan and Sotomayor made up 40% of the majority opinion of Obergefell vs. Hodges.

FDR also used war as an opportunity to shred the implicit constitutional term limit and install himself as, effectively, president for life. The fact that he died during the war was very good for his legacy.

Agree with FDR on policy or not, good point.