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I'd say that Harding shouldn't even count. He gets an honorable mention.
I wouldn't feel comfortable saying Trump is the worst, yet. So far yeah he's loud, offensive, and boisterous,
but he's pretty much a lame duck. Sure he has his EOs, but the next dem president is just gonna wipe it away. Let me know when he gets some actual legislation done that is as hard as the ACA to get rid of.
I would put Johnson, Buchanan, and Wilson as the top three for worst president, though.

justaguy3492 posted...

I also understand what your saying about not pushing modern day morals on historical figures, but lets not pretend like this man didn't encourage state sponsored genocide.

While presentism has its pros and cons, I'd largely agree with the idea that we shouldn't put our own morality on those in the past.
However, he had his critics at the time so it's not as simple as "it was 200 years ago ignore it." It's like saying that "of course people had slaves you can't judge them" when there was literally Tubman and other emancipation leaders fighting to get slaves free at the same time as other people were happily owning slaves.
Maybe if we're talking about soldiers from 2000 years ago raping the losers side I'd get it