Tyler Cowen

Now, if you want to say the two candidates this year, again, there's a lot, something we're not going to talk about, but there is a lot you could say on the negative side, yes.

But like Obama, Romney, whichever one you like, I think, like, gee, these are two guys who should be running for president, and that was not long ago.

Well, the Democrats had this funny path with Biden and Kamala didn't get through the electoral process in the normal way.

So that just means you get weirdness, whatever you think of her as a candidate.

Trump, whom I do not want to win, but I think he is extraordinarily impressive in some way, which along a bunch of dimensions exceeds a lot of earlier candidates.

I just don't like the overall package.

But I would not point to him as an example of low talent.

I think he's a supreme talent, but harnessed to some bad ends.

Well, give me like a country and a name and a time period and I'll try to answer it.

He was from the university.

That's what was wrong with him, right?

And just think of what school it was.

Who, sorry?

Woodrow Wilson.

One of our two or three worst presidents on civil rights.

World War I, he screwed up.

The peace process, he screwed up.

Indirectly, he led to World War II.

reintroduced segregation of civil service in some key regards, and just seemed he was a nasty guy and should have been out of office sooner given his health and state of mind.

So he was terrible.