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1. FDR 2. Reagan 3. Teddy Roosevelt 4. LBJ 5. Clinton the top three left a mark on the political direction of america for decades after they left office. FDR's policies drove the country until Reagan was elected, whose legacy we're still suffering under. Teddy is number 3 because the Progressive Era was much shorter lived by comparison pretty much everyone else from that time frame are a bunch of guys following in their footsteps. i put LBJ at number 4 because he brought about both a further realization of the New Deal and the beginning of a sense of national disillusionment. Clinton is number 5 because he signaled an about-face from decades of Democratic Party policy under FDR, which is still being followed today in spite of many signs of this coming to an end sooner rather than later
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It's way too early to say too much about Trump IMO. Third way politics is weakened and losing influence, but it's still very much alive and kicking and has some degree of sway over the Democratic Party. The reactionary march towards the right that started under Reagan would have gone on anyway had Hillary won. The left was already mobilized to a degree in the primary, but it's certainly gone into overdrive under Trump. Under Hillary, the full power of the DNC would have been dedicated to crushing that movement, but as things stand now, I have doubts that a left-wing movement will get as much power this year as we want it to. Trump did bring about a post-Fukuyama neoliberal consensus world in the US, but this is also nothing new in other parts of the world. Populist right-wing surges happened outside of the Anglosphere a couple years before in Poland, Hungary, and Austria. Before that, Italy got the ball rolling with Berlusconi, who is probably the leader most similar to Trump. After 2018, the picture might be more clear.
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Jan 6, 2018 06:08
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MrOzzy posted:Why is Reagan in so many lists? He had Alzheimer's while he was president and nobody noticed. Mental state doesn't factor into that, though. Reagan is important because he was the beginning of the right wing counter-movement to FDR's New Deal policies. Trump and both Bushes are just continuing what he started. As an aside: I hate hearing people say that Reagan's policies as president would have made him a Democrat today. That's not the point. He was as far to the right as the contemporary political environment allowed him to be, and he paved the way for the political system to keep moving in that direction. Gazpacho posted:lol @ anyone who can't admit that GWB, who defined international relations for decades to come and re-established domestic surveillance, isn't important That said, he did do all those things, plus he brought about the current state of cynicism that Americans are in to this day.
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Jan 9, 2018 05:58
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GoluboiOgon posted:he was the first 20th century president to use mass deportations, created the espionage act that is currently being used against reality winner, and invaded russia without a declaration of war from congress. he also created a centralized censorship board for the media, the CPI.
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Jan 10, 2018 23:03
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Typo posted:the democrats were economically progressive but half of their voting base were racist southerners (wilson was Virginian) also Wilson was a racist southerner, but he's also the only president to go to the white house from New Jersey. thanks, Princeton University
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Jan 11, 2018 00:58
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Dreddout posted:I wouldn't call him remarkable, but he was the founding president of the Progressive Era,(Essentially America's leftwing height that ended with WW1 and the first red scare) and the Roosevelt political dynasty which led to FDR and all that New Deal stuff.
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Jan 11, 2018 03:13
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i guess that's also why Wilson called his progressive platform "New Nationalism." learning a lot itt
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Jan 12, 2018 04:10
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Dreddout posted:That's exactly it yeah 
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Jan 12, 2018 04:33
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GoluboiOgon posted:especially during the WWI period, there was a crackdown on non-anglo white populations, especially german populations. people were forced to change their names to avoid harassment. sauerkraut became liberty cabbage. 
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