RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know
May 31, 2018 at 1:31 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2018 at 1:37 am by Anomalocaris.)
(May 30, 2018 at 9:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote:(May 30, 2018 at 9:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hoover sat on his republicunt ass while the Great Depression happened around him.
Yeah, I imagine he sucked.
Hoover was a very capable man whose vast and impressive skill set by mischance did not include any significant facets that would have equipped him to be an effective president at his moment in history. But his public service through his long life was nonetheless of impressive scale and caliber.
The mere mention of the words public service says all that need to be said about what distinguishs even the worst president in American history before 2016 from the historically unique lesson in how democracy could occasionally defy expectation and underperform virtually any other form of government that is personified in trump.
Other forms of government may have sunken lower, but none even came close to attaining such depth from so high a starting point in so little time.
