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Let's try to make a list of where America went wrong
The Louisiana Purchase: turned the nation into an expansionist empire.
Andrew Jackson ignoring the rule of law so he could genocide the natives
Lincoln keeping Johnson as his VP while at war with the south.
Ending reconstruction early
FDR not hanging the conspirators in the business plot
Nixon using the Southern Strategy to win his election
Ford pardoning Nixon
Everything Ronald Reagan did
Ruby Ridge, Waco, and NAFTA radicalization of rural Americans
Supreme Court awards GWB the presidency
The Iraq War
Unregulated banks allowed to crash the global economy
Limited US involvement in the Arab Spring fails to capitalize on popular movement, Syrian refugee crisis sends far right into overdrive
Allowing the host of celebrity apprentice to be President
Ignoring the COVID pandemic until it's too late then not locking down hard enough.
Supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza
15 could ultimately end up giving Biden the presidency, because it likely ended up killing more conservative voters.