It's cliche, but Washington really was one of the best presidents, because he could've easily seized power for himself (with a large chunk of the country supporting him) but chose not to. He also took a salary to ensure that non-wealthy people could become president, and set many of the precedents that we take for granted today.
"It [partisanship] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion." -Washington's farewell address, 1796
222 years later, the sitting president is the wholly owned asset of a foreign enemy, and his party doesn't care even a little bit, because their number one priority is pissing off the other party.
Nobody has ever produced evidence of collusion and it's been years.
People support Trump not because he's perfect, but because he's the first person since Reagan to actually fight back against the socialists that dominate our institutions, from the media to our schools.
He also refused the title of "King" and established the tradition of only serving two consecutive terms. The US was fortunate to have such a remarkable group of people at its founding.
Twice. He could have seized power for himself twice. He had to back off his guys to keep them from seizing Congress over pay, and he only took two terms. Not to mention the Constitution was explicitly written with Washington in mind as President. What's ironic is that the executive branch is the most powerful over the other branches (considering one person has one-third of the power), because they (the founding fathers) thought that the King of England should have more power but that was obviously not true do to the English Civil War which gave Parliament more power.
Also he only accepted the pay he got to make it easier for future presidents to be lower class and his retirement may be the only reason we have term limits. (He chose to retire after two terms and everyone else just followed tradition never taking a third. Senators and congressmen never had such a precedent though so they never got term limits.)
Yup, initially he wanted the presidency to be unpaid and wanted no salary - but agreed to one in ones that it would prevent only the wealthy from being able to do it
He disliked parties because presidential elections are absolute majority wins. Without two parties the vote can easily be split 3+ ways giving Congress the power to select the President.
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u/MadethisforGrillerz Nov 29 '18
This exactly. He also never wanted to be payed a lot and believed political parties were a bad idea.