Is W the most dangerous liar in American History?
There have been worse people (slaveowners, racists like Woodrow Wilson, incompetents like Warren G. Harding, etc.) in the White House. But the raw historicism of comparing people of different eras and moral universes is deeply unfair to the Washingtons, Jeffersons, and Madisons. So let's just think about the past 50 years or so.
Has anyone been so arrogant with power, so reckless with the truth, so willing to let poor people die for his mistakes, and so outside the bounds of accountability?
Todd Gitlin has some observations about this question.
Yes, Bush is worse than Nixon.
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