Was he an idealist who thought he could create a new global order

Considering that the broad strokes of the 14 points are things which the post WW2 global order has been built on I'd say he was looking in the right direction.

>>3283256
A bit of the first but definitely none of the second.

Wilson is a complicated character, and the /pol/ memes of Wilson being "worst president ever" are retarded.

>>3283273
I don't know about /pol/, but it's hard to say he didn't shit all over what the founding fathers envisioned for America. He intentionally got Americans killed in order to get involved in a European war.

>>3283272
Sounds like his plan is pretty ethnonationalist.

>>3283273

Daily reminder that if you support Wilson, you literally support the idea that it is okay for the President to have people imprisoned for many years for protesting against a war.

>>3283670
Admiring someone's accomplishments doesn't mean you give unqualified support to everything they did.

>>3283273

Any good literature to catch up on Wilson? I recently watched "Rise of a Nation," which led me to research the quote that the movie attributes to him.

His Wikiquotes page was very interesting to say the least.

>>3283692
What accomplishments?

>>3283746

Making sure the Americans were the true winners of WW1, all the prestige and benefits of winning the war without the casualties and national trauma.

>>3283692

Yeah, those thousands of Americans that Wilson imprisoned should have been more appreciative of his "other" accomplishments.

>>3283759
But the end result of WW1 was a botch job that solved nothing and set the stage for WW2. Thousands of Americans died for nothing. The League of Nations was a joke.

>>3283762
Thanks for the meme reply!

>>3283759

>all the prestige and benefits of winning the war

Lol, like what?

>without the casualties and national trauma.

100,000+ American soldiers died in WW1. Perhaps not as high as European nations, but it was a European war from the beginning.

>>3283772

Thanks for the non-argument.

>>3283777
Thanks for the meme reply!

>>3283780

Very convincing.

>>3283783
Thanks for the quick response!

Say what you want about him, at least he could walk

>>3283759
>benefits of winning the war
Like still being stuck playing World Police a century later. Thanks Wilson!

>>3283256
He was a retard who thought America was relevant enough to impose its will in 1918

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well well well

>>3283890
It was. It just wasn't skilled at it and acted as Britains puppet

>>3283816
>>>Stuck

>>3283273
>gave women the right to vote
>sacrificed 100,000 Americans in a pointless war
>surrendered American freedom to big banks
He was officially the worst US president ever