The Worst President

22 February 2026
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The following article provides a summary of the origin of the bureaucratic and technocratic deep state under Woodrow Wilson.

The Worst President You Need to Know About, by Alex Adkins, American Thinker, 21 February 2026. A few excerpts follow:

... no president did more to degrade the country, the Constitution, and the intentions of the Founders than Woodrow Wilson...

His tenure at Princeton revealed his un-American, racist roots originating from his formative years during the height of the Confederacy. Like his vile, anti-black published books, Wilson committed to keeping the university segregated...

As governor of New Jersey, he endorsed eugenics and signed a bill into law that sterilized "the hopelessly defective and criminal classes”...

As the 28th President, Wilson standardized racism in the federal government by segregating the civil service in 1913...

The first film shown at the White House was D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. The film was based on the novel The Clansman by Wilson's friend and classmate, Thomas Dixon...

His efforts helped revitalize the Klan, which reached five million members, and helped make lynching a common practice again...

Furthermore, Christopher Cox's biography Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, presents a clear portrayal of the President's dangerous progressivism. President Wilson was the first American head of state to do away with the vision of government the framers intended...

His major economic achievement during his first year in office was signing the federal income tax into law. He also created the Federal Reserve, which helped trigger the Great Depression and played a major role in the 2008 economic recession, not to mention the ratification of the 17th Amendment, which replaced the appointment of U.S. senators by state legislatures with direct elections, which was a huge blow to federalism...

In many respects, Woodrow Wilson is the godfather of the modern Democratic Party. He made progressivism the party's central tenet nationally and paved the way for statist presidents in Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama...

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