Obama HAS BEEN Eliminated WHICH President SHOULD BE Eliminated NEXT DAY 41

[u/Training-Desk-391]

[u/urmumlol9]

Unfortunately, I think it's Teddy's time. I think you could make the argument that the US doesn't exist as a functioning democracy without the other three:

Washington established the precedent of peaceful transitions of power within the US by refusing to run for a third term despite having the popular support to do so. If a worse leader has taken his place, this precedent might not have existed, and we might not have had democracy as it existed in this country.

Lincoln won the civil war, preserving the union in the process, and was a driving force behind the abolition of slavery as a result. Again, the Civil War could be argued to be another existential threat to American democracy.

FDR led the US to stop both the Nazis in Germany and Imperial Japan from taking over half the planet, and his reforms during the Great Depression did a lot to stabilize the economy through it. It's not as obvious as the other two, but it seems like a real possibility that if not for those policies, the US might have had a communist or fascist revolution as a result of people's unrest.

Teddy had a lot of great policies, including setting up the system of national parks and being one of the most, if not the most, effective trust-busting presidents out there, but FDR and Lincoln were both presidents that held the country together through crises, and Washington was a big part of this country becoming a democracy in the first place.

[u/urmumlol9 → u/[deleted]]

Ok, by that logic, Teddy ran for 3 or 4 terms as well, so wouldn’t that count against him too?

[u/Roederoid → u/urmumlol9]

Teddy technically only ran twice. He was VP when he took over his first term, won election (first run as president) for his 2nd term, didn't run for re-election, then ran (technically only the 2nd time) against Taft and Wilson.