>>513915040
>1. Woodrow Wilson was a particular cancer but I suspect you love him for the same reason I hate him
John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were all good men who in difficult times suspended civil liberties to various degrees. While it is understandable in all cases, I can understand and even make the argument myself that those specific policies were "evil" although, at a relatively low level. If your insinuation is that Woodrow Wilson is evil for allowing cabinet members to segregate their departments, or that's why I like him, that's retarded, in my opinion.
>2. Any president before the civil war is a sucker imo just for not immediately ending the practice on the spot. JQA gets the bullet for that alone.
It's also retarded to suggest that JQA, a president without a mandate, and one who couldn't get any of his legislative priorities passed, could someone abolish slavery. If he tried, he would have been impeached and or thrown the nation into a premature Civil War, with the opposing side larger and more powerful than the Confederacy ended up being.
>Cleveland intervened in the Pullman strike
Yes, this is the fairest criticism of him, and something I considered. However, his anti-imperialism and general anti-bigotry outweigh it.