Atlas Forum's least favorite President

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Woodrow Wilson seems as a logical bet.

[Mr. Smith]

John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce all say hi.

[Phony Moderate]

John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce all say hi.

Nah, Woodrow Wilson has long been the traditional answer on here (and indeed across much of the political internet). Those you mention are probably regarded as lesser presidents than him, but Wilson has always received the greatest amount of open hate. It helps that he generally ranks quite highly in historians' presidential rankings while those others are consistently near the bottom, hence it's much more fun to bash him.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I assumed reagan.

[Santander]

I assumed reagan.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I assumed reagan.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I assumed reagan.

Reagan always had some staunch fans here. I can't think of any unironic Wilson fan.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I assumed reagan.

Reagan always had some staunch fans here. I can't think of any unironic Wilson fan.

Intell probably thinks Wilson is a good president

[Crumpets]

People like Wilson, and maybe Jackson get a lot of the pseudo-intellectual hate on here, but I bet if you went on pure emotion, it's probably George W. Bush.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I assumed reagan.

Reagan always had some staunch fans here. I can't think of any unironic Wilson fan.

Intell probably thinks Wilson is a good president

Oh wait, there was WalterMitty, proclaiming himself as a "Wilsonian progressive" in addition to worshiping Michael Bloomberg and Dick Cheney. Good old times.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

I assumed reagan.

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Abraham Lincoln: 4.45 Stars
George Washington: 4.42 Stars
Chester A. Arthur: 3.8 Stars
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 3.7 Stars
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 3.67 Stars
Thomas Jefferson: 3.65 Stars
Theodore Roosevelt: 3.59 Stars
James Monroe: 3.57 Stars
John Quincy Adams: 3.5 Stars
Grover Cleveland: 3.46 Stars
Grover Cleveland: 3.46 Stars
John F. Kennedy: 3.43 Stars
Harry S. Truman: 3.38 Stars
James Madison: 3.23 Stars
Barack Obama: 3.23 Stars
William Howard Taft: 3.15 Stars
Zachary Taylor: 3.15 Stars
James A. Garfield: 3.14 Stars
Calvin Coolidge: 3.12 Stars
Ulysses S. Grant: 3.06 Stars
Martin Van Buren: 3.04 Stars
George H. W. Bush: 2.95 Stars
Jimmy Carter: 2.86 Stars
James K. Polk: 2.85 Stars
Bill Clinton: 2.79 Stars
Gerald Ford: 2.73 Stars
Ronald Reagan: 2.62 Stars
John Adams: 2.58 Stars
Lyndon B. Johnson: 2.53 Stars
Warren Harding: 2.48 Stars
William McKinley: 2.47 Stars
Andrew Jackson: 2.43 Stars
William Henry Harrison: 2.38 Stars
Woodrow Wilson: 2.36 Stars
Millard Fillmore: 2.33 Stars
Benjamin Harrison: 2.33 Stars
Richard Nixon: 2.29 Stars
Rutherford B. Hayes: 2.15 Stars
Herbert Hoover: 2.11 Stars
John Tyler: 2.11 Stars
Andrew Johnson: 1.72 Stars
George W. Bush: 1.65 Stars
Franklin Pierce: 1.6 Stars
James Buchanan: 1.41 Stars

I'd say relative to an average listing, atlas lists Regan Wilson, Clinton and Adams low.  The real Atlas weirdness comes in who we give relatively highs scores to (one is obvious).

Maybe LBJ has a lower than expected score, given the centre-left leanings of the membership as a whole and the fact that LBJ seems to be partially rehabilitated nowadays amongst "progs" (but apparantly not in the minds of atlas lefties).

[Cashew]

Woodrow Wilson.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Wilson can't be all bad since he gave us SCJ Louis Brandeis.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Wilson can't be all bad since he gave us SCJ Louis Brandeis.

The deal with Wilson is that his every decent act had to be accompanied by something awful. Yes, he appointed Brandeis, but he also appointed this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_McReynolds

[GoTfan]

Hoover?

[100% pro-life no matter what]

If Atlas actually voted on this, it would almost certainly be Trump, given the forum political demographics.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Wilson can't be all bad since he gave us SCJ Louis Brandeis.

The deal with Wilson is that his every decent act had to be accompanied by something awful. Yes, he appointed Brandeis, but he also appointed this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_McReynolds

I like them both

(While he was personally really awful in a lot ways, including to Brandeis, I appreciate his legal contributions.)

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If Atlas actually voted on this, it would almost certainly be Trump, given the forum political demographics.

The interesting thing, though, is to calculate who is disliked relative to a generic group of the same demographics.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I assumed reagan.

Reagan always had some staunch fans here. I can't think of any unironic Wilson fan.

waltermitty is the biggest Wilson fan I know.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Do we count the President or not? He is probably the most widely loathed person I can think of on Atlas period.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Do we count the President or not? He is probably the most widely loathed person I can think of on Atlas period.

Only because W is off being a good citizen now.  He could be playing golf and living the high life but he's chosen a more noble path.......and he's still hated here.

But The Donald no doubt takes the cake.

[RINO Tom]

Atlas pretty much always hates someone who is "widely" considered to be good/not all that bad but also has one or two things that the nerds on Atlas feel the dumb historians overlook.

Prime examples are Wilson's racism and LBJ's Vietnam actions (but not his racism, LOL).

[Santander]

Atlas pretty much always hates someone who is "widely" considered to be good/not all that bad but also has one or two things that the nerds on Atlas feel the dumb historians overlook.

Prime examples are Wilson's racism and LBJ's Vietnam actions (but not his racism, LOL).

I think LBJ would be ranked top 10 by historians if it weren't for Vietnam. Nobody cares about his racism.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Atlas pretty much always hates someone who is "widely" considered to be good/not all that bad but also has one or two things that the nerds on Atlas feel the dumb historians overlook.

Prime examples are Wilson's racism and LBJ's Vietnam actions (but not his racism, LOL).

I think LBJ would be ranked top 10 by historians if it weren't for Vietnam. Nobody cares about his racism.

I think resegregating the federal government and screening "Birth of a Nation" in the White House are a bit more materially bad than calling Johnson a cynical manipulator.