Like, him at the top is bullshit in of itself, and putting Jackson in the top is bullshit too. But, he put Grant in the shitbox. Grant: the man who literally won the Civil War for the Union. Fuck off with that!

*Edit: Linky

**Edit 2: Also, Hoover oversaw the start of the Great Depression. So, that wouldn’t make him average. Also, where’s JFK?

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      I’m old enough to remember the moment when enough of the Greatest Generation had died so the GOP could start in on how FDR had been a failure.

      When the Greatest* were alive they’d talk your ear off about how FDR had saved the country and what a great leader he was.

      But the New Deal was way too Socialist to be allowed today.

      *Please don’t yammer about they weren’t ‘great’ because of the racism and sexism and imperialism. “Greatest Generation” is the commonly accepted term.

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      Well, FDR was a man of snappy quotes, executive overreach, and of throwing a lot of things at the wall and seeing what sticks.