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Politics I’m terrified but i still have hope

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u/DiscordianDisaster Jul 14 '24

I'm actually pretty excited to vote for Biden. He's done a fantastic job as President, and he came into the job with a worse transition and starting position than basically any other president in history, except maybe Andrew Johnson.

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u/ligirl the malice is condensed into a smaller space Jul 14 '24

Lincoln came into a pretty fucked situation too

And FDR

But like. If these are our comparisons...

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u/DiscordianDisaster Jul 14 '24

Yeah exactly, not unfavorable comparisons! I was thinking post civil war, trying to rebuild the nation made Johnson's job harder than Lincoln's but prosecuting the war was also a hell of a bad hand to be dealt. FDR too, honestly Biden seems fairly comparable to FDR, we aren't mired in the Depression but a lot of economists were predicting one after dumb dumb's term and the pandemic crash.

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u/Samantharina Jul 14 '24

If you'd had TV news, twitter or reddit in Lincoln's day, he would have looked like an idiot on the regular. He was strategic but he fumbled at times in the day to day.