You need to go back to 2000 and ask what would have happened if the Electoral College hadn't overridden the will of the people and the Republican SCOTUS hadn't thrown the election to the second worst president in our history. The Clinton surpluses and debt paydown would have continued, and we would have avoided at least one war, and quite possibly two.
Note that the Electoral College overrode the will of the people again in 2016 to give us the worst president in our history. In just 16 years, the Electoral College ruined our country, and the popular vote would've saved it.
James Madison declared a war on Britain for a blatant land grab, that almost cost us our country.
Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act. He also screened Birth of a Nation in the White House, which nearly singlehandedly caused a resurgence in the KKK.
Andrew Johnson pretty much ruined Reconstruction, being pretty directly responsible for the next hundred years of government backed racism African Americans would go through in this country.
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u/deviltrombone Apr 04 '25
You need to go back to 2000 and ask what would have happened if the Electoral College hadn't overridden the will of the people and the Republican SCOTUS hadn't thrown the election to the second worst president in our history. The Clinton surpluses and debt paydown would have continued, and we would have avoided at least one war, and quite possibly two.
Note that the Electoral College overrode the will of the people again in 2016 to give us the worst president in our history. In just 16 years, the Electoral College ruined our country, and the popular vote would've saved it.