Name and shame - The worst of the worst.

[denem]

What comes to mind immediately as the worst in American political history. My first thought surprised me: Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party's 'Trail of Tears'.

[geek tragedy]

1. 3/5 n/t

[denem]

4. ?

[Odin2005]

5. Slaves were worth 3/5 of a free person when it came for congressional representation.

[denem]

7. OK

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. That is a good one

as I have lived on that Trail for decades.

I would also say the leaders of the Plymouth Colony for King Phillip's War.

[EFerrari]

3. Ronald Raygun: Central American death squads. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

6. That one and slavery are the two that would have occurred to me.

In the UK: everything done to the poor under feudalism; the Wars of the Roses; the extensive use of torture and the death penalty in much of the past; vicious exploitation of children during the industrial revolution.

[EFerrari]

8. Elizabeth's Star Chamber resembled the bent of Bush the Younger's circle.

They're likely the impetus for all the surveillance cameras in London right now.

[EFerrari]

9. Hayes ending Reconstruction in 1877.

[OnyxCollie]

10. Chief Justice Taney. nt

[devilgrrl]

11. Strom F%#@ing Thurman! Huey Long. Boss Tweed. Bush family members.

:nuke:

[BreweryYardRat]

12. Yeah, Jackson's one of the worst.

Andrew Johnson runs a close second due to fucking up the Reconstruction plans Lincoln had made.