Is Donald J. Trump the most evil president to
take office? Many of his opponents would have you believe so. The
hysteria against trump is beyond any president in modern history, even
surpassing the anti-Obama reaction from the fringe right. There’s even a
dating website for helping Americans meet Canadians for romance so that they can flee to Canada and escape Trump’s evil dictatorship.
But let’s put this into perspective.
Has Trump expressed support for secretly infecting blacks with syphilis? If not then he’s less evil than countless bureaucrats working in federal health department who did just that for forty years and the presidents who created the evil system that enabled it.
Has he advocated genociding Mexicans and kicking them off their land
to make room for white Americans to colonize? If not then he is less
evil than the man celebrated on the Federal Reserve’s $20 bill, Andrew
Jackson.
Has he voiced support for genociding hundreds of thousands Muslims in
the Middle East with the stated intent that America will colonize their
land and Christianize the survivors? If not then Trump is less evil
than William McKinley and his war against Filipinos.
Has he proposed using chemical weapons in war? If not then he is less evil than Woodrow Wilson, who did just that in WW-I.
Has he proposed rounding up all foreign Arabs into concentration
camps and then nuking their home cities in the Middle East? If not then
he’s less evil than the president whose portrait is celebrated on the
dime, Franklin Roosevelt, and his predecessor Harry Truman, who did just
that to the Japanese people.
Has he proposed irradiating people, waterways, and animal habitat overseas to test larger and larger nuclear bombs? If not then he is less evil than when Dwight Eisenhower nuked the inhabited Bikini Atoll year after year all eight years of his presidency.
Has he advocated for an unwinnable war on the scale of Vietnam? If not then he is less evil than Lyndon Johnson.
Has he argued for bombing Iran, bombing Syria, overthrowing the government of Libya, invading Iraq, unending war in Afghanistan, and bombing numerous other countries all the while? Destabilizing the entire Middle East and creating millions of displaced refugees pouring into Europe and elsewhere? If not then he’s less evil than Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Did he kill more Muslim children than were killed by Truman’s nuking of Hiroshima, and, when asked about it, respond by saying “the price is worth it”? If not then he’s less evil than Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.
Has he killed large sums of American families by burning them alive,
shooting them, and poisoning them with cyanide, including burning,
shooting, and poisoning their children? If not then he’s less evil than
Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno. (I’m referring to Waco, if you don’t recall.)
But is he uniquely evil? History says no. Plenty of other presidents have set that bar very high, and Trump hasn’t come close to reaching it. He has four years to do so and probably will move closer to that bar, if history is any guide. But as of now he has not implemented nor even proposed policies remotely close to reaching that bar.
But let’s put this into perspective.
Has Trump expressed support for secretly infecting blacks with syphilis? If not then he’s less evil than countless bureaucrats working in federal health department who did just that for forty years and the presidents who created the evil system that enabled it.
Genocidal maniac.
McKinley’s most notable work.
Has he proposed using chemical weapons in war? If not then he is less evil than Woodrow Wilson, who did just that in WW-I.
Not Trump’s handiwork.
Has he proposed irradiating people, waterways, and animal habitat overseas to test larger and larger nuclear bombs? If not then he is less evil than when Dwight Eisenhower nuked the inhabited Bikini Atoll year after year all eight years of his presidency.
Also not Trump’s doing.
Has he argued for bombing Iran, bombing Syria, overthrowing the government of Libya, invading Iraq, unending war in Afghanistan, and bombing numerous other countries all the while? Destabilizing the entire Middle East and creating millions of displaced refugees pouring into Europe and elsewhere? If not then he’s less evil than Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Did he kill more Muslim children than were killed by Truman’s nuking of Hiroshima, and, when asked about it, respond by saying “the price is worth it”? If not then he’s less evil than Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.
Trump hasn’t done this yet.
Conclusion
This is not a defense of Trump. Trump is bad. His threats of tariffs will wreck the economy and increase the odds of hostile relations with other countries. He threatens to ratchet up the war on drugs and the harm, sometimes deadly harm, it does to innocent people. He advocates even greater militarization of the already too militarized police. His stupid border wall will drive up massive taxpayer debt that can’t be repaid. All these things are bad.But is he uniquely evil? History says no. Plenty of other presidents have set that bar very high, and Trump hasn’t come close to reaching it. He has four years to do so and probably will move closer to that bar, if history is any guide. But as of now he has not implemented nor even proposed policies remotely close to reaching that bar.
Clinton’s work (or Bush’s or Obama’s?), but not yet Trump’s.
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