Today we are celebrating or at least it is a Federal Holliday, Presidents Day. The country is as divided as it ever was on its opinion about the President. We, as a country, always were somewhat polarized about politics. Thomas Jefferson was the first real controversial President. Lincoln was extremely unpopular and dispised at the time, and so was Kennedy. Martyrdom trumps history (no pun intended).
I was born under Harry S. Truman; history paints him as a mass- murderer for dropping the A-bombs on Japan. The bombs had to be used, or we would have had many more casualties. The greatest decade, in my opinion, America ever had was the 50's. The media portrayed Ike as the President who slept and golfed during his time in office.
John Kennedy's term was teetering, and of course, assassination has a way of coloring history's opinion of him. The first man on the moon speech, although forward-thinking, didn't solve the problem of the looming Vietnam War or race relations. LBJ moved us into one step closer to socialism with the "Great Society." Then came "Tricky Dickey" he could have been a great President, but he was paranoid of the press. That era marked the politicizing of T.V. Ford was a placeholder with no vision. Carter was as phony and, in my opinion, a weak man. He had intellect, but his spiritual condition (which he made an issue) was found wanting.
Now we come to Reagan. The greatest POTUS in our history, in my opinion. He defeated Communism by his wit and wisdom, not with war.
The Bush's were political hacks both. Clinton was a great politician and pulled off a great maneuver when he ran toward the center after the Republican takeover of the House and Senate in '94.
Obama was a globalist and a Saul Alinsky activist who parlayed his skin color to gain a platform.
Trump's plan is summed up in Scott Adams's book, "Winning Bigly." If you don't read this book, you will never get Trump. He further polarized American's because he knew after McCain and Romney there was no middle ground anymore in American politics.
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