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Muscles posted...

People really like FDR? The dude who had Japanese internment camps? The dude who turned Jews away that were fleeing from Germany in WWII? FDR was one of the most racist presidents but is still loved somehow. I don't get how liberals can defend tearing down statues of racists, and non racists who did nothing to deserve it, like Grant, but still love FDR despite his hatred for black people, jews, and asians.

People need to remember what the U.S. as a whole was like back then. STRONGLY isolationist, didn't want to get involved in another war at all. And pretty fucking racist, and had a disturbing amount of nazi sympathizers (some things never seem to change).
FDR seemed to do as much as he could to help the allies and defeat the nazis without getting voted out of office.

BlackScythe0 posted...

People don't tend to rate Andrew Jackson too poorly, hell he's on the 5 dollar bill, and that bastard committed genocide.

$20 bill. And Jackson is the objectively worst president in history. He isn't rated too poorly, but he should be at the bottom.
The Indian Removal Act (ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, and the brutal march that killed so many on the way) and outright ignoring the Supreme Court's ruling that the Cherokee shouldn't be forced out.
Extremely brutal towards slaves even compared to others of his time (offering bonus rewards on captured escaped slaves if the captors beat/whipped them before turning them in)
Being the only president in history to be the sole or at least primary cause of a major recession due to his dissolving of the federal banks in favor of state banks run by his cronies.
Being the initiator of both the "Spoils System" where executive branch jobs are rewarded strictly to political allies and cronies rather than on merit and trying to include opposing parties and the vicious campaign mudslinging we're so accustomed to today (Adams also slung mud in return, but his attacks were typically true while as Jackson's were mostly false smears).
Speaking of lies, he claimed his victory at New Orleans helped lead to favorable peace treaty terms, even though the treaty was signed 2 weeks before the battle took place and he knew this (news was slower back then).

The only thing he was good at was killing people.