Buchanan isn’t blamed for making secession inevitable – although he definitely contributed by putting his thumb on the scales with the Dredd Scott case – he’s blamed for doing nothing when secession was happening.
So I often see Buchanan ranked as the worst US President, a sentiment I agree with, but I wonder, could it simply be a case of wrong place, wrong time? Was the secession inevitable by that point and Buchanan is just the scapegoat?
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