I mean, there was that time FDR told the Supreme Court he was going to execute some spies without due process so they’d better come up with a reason why it was legal. Or that time FDR sequestered Japanese-Americans. Or that time Wilson re-segregated the federal government. https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1267603752938332163
Or that time Hayes won the Presidency on the condition that he end Reconstruction and permit Jim Crow. Or the entire Buchanan presidency. Or that time the sitting Vice-President fled to South Carolina because he murdered a Founding Father.
White privilege is thinking that being a crude jerk is the worst thing a President can do.
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