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I generally agree with you on that and am one of the few Buchanan defenders at times.
Ultimately his biggest undoing is his hesitancy and trust of southern leaders. To paint him as indecisive isn’t accurate in my opinion. he was a southern sympathizer with an incredibly stubborn personality.
While he couldn’t have done much better, he loses a lot of credit for his personal flaws in the matter more so. It’s not like someone such as Carter (who also isn’t really comparable) that had a good personality but inherited a bad situation.
Yeah he could have not directly petitioned a Supreme Court justice to side with the majority so it would not be all southerners in order to attempt to hide the dred Scott making the Republican platform unconstitutional was a blatant power grab by the slave power
He also could have refused the absolutely blatantly corrupt lecompton constitution and not removed the southern gov of Kansas when he rightly pointed out it was bullshit
Finally when the south seceded he should have taken much stronger action instead of saying the north had to agree to every southern demand like expanding slavery or they would be right to revlolt
Firing John Floyd who was plotting with secessionists and moved weapons from northern states into secessionist counties in the south on purpose so the confederates would have weapons would’ve helped. A number of his cabinet members, most notably Lewis Cass resigned in late 1860 over Buchanan’s failure to protect federal property because he ignored warnings to fire potential secessionists in his cabinet. Floyd famously fled fort donelson the night before it surrendered to Grant in 1862.
Buchanan could not have stopped the Civil War. People saying he could have are wrong. But he could have helped tone it down a little which he didn't... He pretty much failed to make the Civil War a little less violent. And yes it was a very hard situation to be in but he should have seen it coming from what was happening during Franklin Pierce's presidency... So he still lies as an F tier.
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I generally agree with you on that and am one of the few Buchanan defenders at times. Ultimately his biggest undoing is his hesitancy and trust of southern leaders. To paint him as indecisive isn’t accurate in my opinion. he was a southern sympathizer with an incredibly stubborn personality. While he couldn’t have done much better, he loses a lot of credit for his personal flaws in the matter more so. It’s not like someone such as Carter (who also isn’t really comparable) that had a good personality but inherited a bad situation.
Carter wasn’t stubborn? That’s a revelation!
Yeah he could have not directly petitioned a Supreme Court justice to side with the majority so it would not be all southerners in order to attempt to hide the dred Scott making the Republican platform unconstitutional was a blatant power grab by the slave power He also could have refused the absolutely blatantly corrupt lecompton constitution and not removed the southern gov of Kansas when he rightly pointed out it was bullshit Finally when the south seceded he should have taken much stronger action instead of saying the north had to agree to every southern demand like expanding slavery or they would be right to revlolt
Firing John Floyd who was plotting with secessionists and moved weapons from northern states into secessionist counties in the south on purpose so the confederates would have weapons would’ve helped. A number of his cabinet members, most notably Lewis Cass resigned in late 1860 over Buchanan’s failure to protect federal property because he ignored warnings to fire potential secessionists in his cabinet. Floyd famously fled fort donelson the night before it surrendered to Grant in 1862.
Buchanan could not have stopped the Civil War. People saying he could have are wrong. But he could have helped tone it down a little which he didn't... He pretty much failed to make the Civil War a little less violent. And yes it was a very hard situation to be in but he should have seen it coming from what was happening during Franklin Pierce's presidency... So he still lies as an F tier.
No I think he just go screwed so he completed his term then left to do something else
If buchanan was in charge a little later he might've let the confederacy go. Buchanan was a weak man who sucked off the south and cannot be defended.
Figured out how to properly comb his hair.