Martin Van Buren had the bad fortune to follow a big populist President, Andrew Jackson, and then got blamed for the 1837 recession. Van Buren initiated the pre-Civil War cycle of mediocre, mostly weak, one-term Presidents that lasted until the Civil War. Are we currently in another cycle of mediocre, one-term Presidents?
Martin Van Buren had the bad fortune to follow a big populist President, Andrew Jackson, and then got blamed for the 1837 recession. Van Buren initiated the pre-Civil War cycle of mediocre, mostly weak, one-term Presidents that lasted until the Civil War. Are we currently in another cycle of mediocre, one-term Presidents?