The obvious answer here, as @baseballcrank already pointed out, is Woodrow Wilson. So it's pretty amusing that Zack's "emerging consensus" is all marginal right-wing public intellectuals from the 1980s and onwards, suggesting both how partisan and historically ignorant they are.https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1215320811437010946 …
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Yes, compared to a two-term President of the United States whose policy program enshrined progressivism, Constitutional contempt, and 'scientific racism' into our lives via governmental fiat? Charles Murray is practically some palooka on the street. https://twitter.com/RomanShuster/status/1215471846352703488 …
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This is a comparative game we're being asked to play. No public intellectual has had a more deleterious effect on the US republic -- by bipartisan consensus! -- in nearly every single way, from race to civil liberties to foreign policy, than Woodrow Wilson.
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Wilson *resegregated* the federal gov't. He threw his political opponents in prison for speaking against his war policies. He openly argued the Constitution was a hindrance & progressivism demanded it be discarded. And his foreign policy was one blundering disaster after another.
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Wilson has become unfashionable on the right, but I’m gonna go with the contrarian take and say that most of what we blame him for is actually Teddy Roosevelt’s fault.
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Nah, TR was neither a living Constitutionalist nor an administrative state guy, at least not nearly as devoted or theoretical on either count as Wilson. And he was not as uncomplicatedly racist:pic.twitter.com/UMF39MiO0m
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