The great writer Thomas Sowell makes a compelling case that Obama is the second coming of Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile, the smart folks over at Cato make a compelling case that Wilson’s decision to enter the US into World War I was a world-altering mistake, not only creating the circumstances that led to the rise of the Nazis and WWII, but setting the stage for the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the formation of the USSR.
Cato also drew parallels between Wilson and Obama.
There’s a laundry list of cautionary proverbs regarding pride and ego, yet even the proudest and most egotistical cannot do so much harm unless he is supported by people who buy into and worship that pride and ego. To wreak the sort of havoc on the nation’s fundamental principles that Wilson and Obama have requires that people abandon those principles and grant power to a big personality. History is awash in big personalities, but the ones that have done their nations and their people good are the ones who temper those personalities with humility and who understand limits.
Sowell notes that the three presidents who followed Wilson had none of his charisma. It’s also noteworthy that Harding and Coolidge shepherded the nation through the Depression of 1920-21 without the big-government approach that both FDR and BO used in response to the economic crises they faced, and the Harding/Coolidge approach not only bounced the nation back in record time but ushered in the Roaring 20s, a period of great prosperity.
Lets hope Sowell is right, and the nation comes out of the Obama years so sick of egomaniacs that it elects someone with some humility.
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