@BottomoftheNinth#4227
>54'40 or fight
>settles border at 49th parallel
>Polk "achieved" his goals

Well you have to examine what 54'40 or fight meant. It meant resolving a border conflict with the British, but making it clear that he was looking to make a deal that was favorable to America and wasn't willing to get fleeced on it. In the end I think setting a clear border on the 49th parallel is an amazing achievement. Its like Trump style negotiation. Set a favorable boundary to the negotiation so you walk away with what you want. @Deleted User

Think of how Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall. What he conveyed with that message is that the wall was not just a physical barrier, but a message to the rest of the world that America will no longer tolerate unfavorable trade deals. Mexico will not physically pay for the wall, but they will stop taking advantage of us because of the message the wall sends and how Trump plans to use that message

Fair enough

i have a soft spot for jimmy carter

nice guy

christian

family man

but weak and incompetent president

Beat cancer multiple times

Yeah I have nothing personal against Jimmy Carter

His failure also caused a psuedo awakening of conservatives and shattered the far left Democrat hegemony

Not saying Reagan was perfect, but its undeniable Reagan was a massive step in the right direction

Naturally the Bush's ruined it.

Bush did too much CIA shit during Reagan's presidency

and Reagan unleashed the Mexican hordes on California

ruined his own state

Fuckin BASED

the shitting on reagan meme in the AR has gone entirely too far.

reagan is GAY

^

"Don't shit on Ronald Reagan even though he granted amnesty to a million spics and turned his own state permanently blue!"

Isn't it just astonishing that an actor managed to lie his way into the presidency

https://youtu.be/b5wfPlgKFh8

this is literally reagan

@Solipsistic Vinarchy or at least George HW Bush

@Deleted User Just being a contrarian
"Omgf!!! You didn't mention Polk literally the best president evar!!! 54 40 or fite!!!"
t. bugman historian
Polk's not a bad president but a lot of pretentious folks overrate him for the sake of showing off their basic knowledge of American history

Polk fought a war to pay for the privilege of buying sparsely populated land

>one of the few American presidents who was a true imperialists

it was a good investment though

and Polk optics cucked by paying

he didn't want to look like a bad no-good imperialist

>cucked brits out of WA and OR

we had Mexico City on lockdown, we didn't have to pay if we didn't want to

>WAAAA he didnt get BC! >:((((((

This is canon

Also this

its a shame franklin pierce was a failed president

he wanted to take cuba