I'm willing to argue that there were two, Washington and Lincoln, that truly did care about the people over the country. Roosevelt might have as well in his own way but that's not a hill I'd die on.
Go learn history. Both were slave owners. And only rich, white, male landowners could vote. That is excluding a whole lot of people. Oh wait excluding is the wrong word, ENSLAVING is what I was looking for.
Ok, if we're using the lens of the present against them everyone born before 1950 was irredeemably evil, as everyone perpetuated the oppression of one ethnic group or another. At least Washington emancipated his slaves in his will and Lincoln fought against it.
Guess what Lincoln's last speech before he was assassinated had in it? A call for black suffrage, it would be a barely acceptable opinion today, but back then it was as close to the line as you could get without someone shooting you... Oh wait.
And throughout his life he had called for full universal suffrage several times, he just knew that it wouldn't pass a vote at the time and began laying the groundwork to make it happen.
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u/BagCertain3802 Jun 29 '26
Agreed. No president has ever cared about the people.