Trump is, by far, the worst human being to be President. Grossly corrupt, openly contemptuous of moral norms, narcissistic to the point of derangement, and with a thoroughly unpleasant personality, to boot. His history of moral degeneracy is almost literally endless, ranging from assaults to petty corruption in financial dealings. Had he been born anything other than privileged, he’d have become a street criminal.
Bush Jr. may have been a worse President in the sense that, at a global level, his Administration did more harm through the Iraq War (a war so disastrous his own party now disclaims it) than did Trump. Trump would make a worse neighbor in the sense that I think it’s unlikely Bush Jr. would sexually assault my niece were the two to meet.
Reagan was a bad President whose embrace of dumb and destructive policies sent America on its present path of social-political decay. His awfulness was slightly inihbited by the fact that his party was somewhat less reactionary in the 80’s than it is today, so he appointed the occasional moderate like Sandra Day O’Connor to high office. By today’s standards he’d be considered about average on the “Republican awful” chart, not a walking crisis to the state like Trump, nor a semi-moderate like Romney, but maybe about Marco Rubio-level awful.
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