It Is Appalling That Anybody Would Ever Call Woodrow Wilson A Great (Or Even Good) President

WWI
Woodrow Wilson was much more hesitant than he should've been when it came to entering WW1. After we had lost over 100 Americans on the Lusitania, Wilson remained firm in his belief that we should not enter the war. Then, after the Zimmermann Telegram, it took him a whole month to even begin to consider taking action. That, in itself, is strange. But what's even more strange is that after we had entered the war, he switched from hesitant isolationist policies to bold, publicly-known idealist policies. He became extremely eager to negotiate in the war's peace talks, and then began proposing things like the unsuccessful League of Nations and the Fourteen Points, which included a radical plan to reshape the boundaries of European countries. Wilson's quick switch between policies only proves to me that he had ulterior motives (exerting his influence on other countries).

Sedition Act of 1918
This act was just a complete restriction of basic First Amendment rights, making it illegal to speak out against the government. This act imprisoned almost 1,000 people, and was a total disgrace to everything America stands for. This was only a contribution to his belief in more executive power.

Wilson's Racist Tendencies
Wilson also intentionally segregated the federal government, held up Jim Crow laws, and he even supported the Ku Klux Klan, screening a historical film, The Birth of a Nation, at the White House, which depicted former slaves and other free African Americans as the evil aggressors, and the KKK as the "saviors" of the South.

Espionage Act
Most of the Espionage Act was good and had good intentions (it was designed to keep spies out of the US), but there were some parts of it that just weren't right. Germans and eastern Europeans who were fleeing their collapsing, now-impoverished nations were instantly and without investigation, labeled as spies (due to the Espionage Act), and were deported. Even pacifists who believed that America shouldn't be in the war were deported. There were some parts of the Espionage Act that made it more like the Sedition Act and not a security measure to keep spies out of the country.

Spanish Flu
Woodrow Wilson downplayed the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed approximately 675,000 Americans. He never released a single public statement about the flu, resulting in way more deaths than there probably needed to be. Wilson himself eventually got such a bad case of the Spanish Flu that it hindered his ability to be more involved in the peace talks at the end of WWI, and it caused him to hallucinate about French spies surrounding him.

"I have to say, I agree with you a LOT. I wish we could do team debating, because I would very much enjoy debating alongside you."

I’m glad we could get along and agree. Thanks for that.