Woodrow Wilson was a bad president.

UPHOLDPeace 1: Wilson decided to enter World War I.On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress with his “war message.” Four days later, the United States passed the War Resolution which brought the United States into the Great War. Wilson actually called the Congress into a special session to get us into war more quickly; he spoke, “It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts -- for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.”Peace 2: His military policies instigated decades of aftermath. Virtually every historian who analyzes the second world war traces its groundwork to the Treaty of Versailles, a treat which would have not had to have been signed, if the United States didn’t enter world war one. Cross-apply what I stated in contention Peace 2 here.CLASH“My main argument consists of the idea that we should not judge a President of the United States as bad unless we are to consider his individual decisions and powers as a President.”I agree with this sentiment, and so does my case. My case does not represent the entire US government’s collective decisions, but rather Woodrow Wilson’s terrible decisions such as his, “”Gestapo tactics he spit on the Bill of Rights and reduced the U.S. government to the status of a second-rate police state,” referencing the detention and execution of Italian, anarchist immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were convicted on scant evidence and later executed for murder. Woodrow Wilson set the worst policies of any US president in economics, freedom, and peace, the ramifications of which we still feel today.“ I do not consider any President of the United States as having been good.”There have been good US presidents; however, their policies are diametrically opposed to those of Woodrow Wilson.“What makes Woodrow Wilson a bad President?”It can be argued that Wilson screwed up the entire twentieth century and beyond. US involvement in WWI was instrumental in causing a violent twentieth century for the world; the decision to enter was entirely Wilson’s, in fact later studies showed no lobbying for the entrance into the war by the 100 largest US industrial companies.Wilson also invented the presidential press conference which greatly expanded the chief executive’s “bully pulpit” and eventually led to the media’s excessive coverage of the president at the expense of the other branches of government.His Espionage and Sedition Acts were serious attacks on civil liberties, and people needlessly died as a result of them.“What executive decisions or lack of decisions have lead to negative outcomes?”Previously stated reasons: setting up Federal Reserve, entering World War 1, and reneging civil liberties led to some of the worst outcomes in human history: World War two, one,Cold War, Nuclear build up, Iraq war, great depression, and further erosion of civil liberties.Thanks!