Often overlooked because he was a one-termer, but H.W. Bush may be the most successful President we’ve had in modern times.
The Gulf War was the most successful war we’ve ever fought, with the proper diplomatic groundwork, clear objectives that we met easily, and an exit strategy we followed to a tee.
Even more important, he successfully managed the complex geopolitical crisis of the breakup of the USSR without gloating about it.
He is remembered as an absolute class act by all who knew and worked with him, and is the polar opposite of the bitter, hateful, know-nothing and isolationist GOP which both brought us Trump and which Trump has further twisted and corrupted.
All of the unique advantages America enjoyed back then have been tossed into the dumpster fire.