Replying to @⁨Viceversa@lemmy.world⁩

Reagan was a horrible president, as in horrible for the country, but they were at least minimally competent.

Trump is not only stupid, but insists on surrounding himself with people as stupid as he is, with personal loyalty to Trump’s ego (in the most servile sense) being by far the most important qualification, coming even before looking “good” on TV.

Reagan was constrained by wanting the United States to maintain its military and economic superiority. Trump is unconstrained by anything other than feeling personally important.

His random and capricious trade wars are absolutely destroying the US economy–capital is absolutely beginning to flee from the United States; even domestic manufacturers are choosing Canada over more investments in a country that is going to have supply line issues.

Meanwhile, the Iran war has torpedoed the US military presence in the Middle East, endangered all our vassal states, and its only a matter of time before the petrodollar, the cornerstone of our economic prosperity, disappears.

I am not a fan of Reagan, but I challenge you to find anything he did that is immediately and obviously bad for the United States as a superpower as what Trump has been doing.

Replying to @⁨dhtseany@lemmy.ml⁩

Historians generally like to wait about a decade after a president leaves office before they start evaluating his presidency. Some policies take time to bloom, and there might be policies that later make that administration look better, or worse.

In Trump’s case, he was such a terrible president, that historians pretty much installed him in last place immediately after his first term. Obviously, his second term has only confirmed what historians concluded already.

It’s not just because his policies have been so terrible, although that alone would bury him, it’s also the fact that he’s a proven Traitor in multiple ways (the Jan 6 coup, the false electors plot, stolen documents, foreign collusion, bribery from hostile nations, etc).

He is such a terrible president, that even Biden’s ranking has suffered, because he allowed MAGA to rise again, and allowed Trump to regain power.

He is EASILY the worst president in history, and that is before the fact that he is likely to end up in prison or even executed, has been factored in.