• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    201·
    5 days ago

    Explanation: James Buchanan was the last president elected before the US Civil War. He is widely considered to have been one of the worst presidents in our history, with his blatant Southern slaver sympathy emboldening the slaver cause, while simultaneously infuriating the anti-slavery North. When the Southern states seceded, he placed the blame on the North for ‘provoking’ the slavers into attempting to murder their way into a perpetual slaverocracy.

    Fuckwit.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
      13·
      5 days ago

      The secretary of the interior in 1856, literally the second Buchanan takes office: Mr President, there’s a little mini war happening at the Kansas Nebraska border over slavery, people are literally killing each other about it.

      James Buchanan, probably: nah that’s fine. Let em fight it out. That will surely settle the matter once and for all.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    21·
    4 days ago

    Biden is going to be remembered similarly, for appointing a conservative AG who slow-walked the prosecution of Trump and let the traitor get off. In the long run, nobody’s going to give a shit about his “accomplishments” (Inflation Reduction Act, etc.) compared to that.

    Also, at least Buchanan actually kept his promise not to seek reelection.

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      41·
      4 days ago

      Biden is going to be remembered similarly, for appointing a conservative AG who slow-walked the prosecution of Trump and let the traitor get off. In the long run, nobody’s going to give a shit about his “accomplishments” (Inflation Reduction Act, etc.) compared to that.

      Yeah. When you lose the republic, it overshadows any middling reforms you pushed.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      1·
      4 days ago

      Also for how absurdly badly the party fumbled Biden’s succession. At least Buchanan didn’t seek reelection …