de-legitimizing the president
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You know how it is, people on the news referring to Obama as 'this president' and not 'our president', those 'not my president shirts' from the Bush era. Birther-ism. Etc.
Is this just a modern thing, or were presidents from the past also constantly treated like they were not legitimately the president?
That's as old as the office of presidency.
John Tyler had people constantly address him as "his accidency" because he kind of glided into the job.
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During the Populist era, there was strong sentiment that the president just represented the interests of the wealthy, so I wouldn't say there's anything new about it. The post-World War II years of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy may be an exception, outside of the few die-hard communists.
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Lincoln
