Politics: The 50 Year Curse

You have probably heard about the 20 year curse and know what that is. But there is a different curse that affects the presidency that you probably have no idea about. There is another curse that is mentioned in the complete book of US presidents that it seems not even google knows about (last I checked). What is it? I might as well explain.

You see, every 50 years, a major scandal hits the White House. It started with one president and has occurred two more times around the same time period. I’ll explain more towards the end how this is relevant again today, but you can probably guess.

Ulysses S Grant had a whole ton of controversies happen when he was president. People think of him as such a good general during the Civil War (which he was) that they don’t seem to know just how terrible a president he was. He doesn’t deserve to be on money, especially an amount as high as the 50 dollar bill. Now it might have been various people in his administration who did one scandal after another. Indeed, Grant had two terms as president and could have had a third one after the Hayes administration. But if presidential scholars rank your presidency as a failure, then you probably are one.

Warren G Harding is widely considered by many to be the worst ever president. If he hadn’t died of mysterious causes, he probably would have been impeached. And his problems were caused by his so called friends. The Teapot Dome scandal is what he’s remembered. No good person is remembered for a scandal.

Richard M Nixon is actually similar in a lot of ways to Trump. Richard hated the press, had many backroom deals with people, and faced off against a Democrat in an election where a group of people had hacked into the Democratic headquarters. In Richard’s case, he was responsible for his team breaking into the Watergate complex and digging up dirt on his opponent. People don’t seem to know the full or real story behind his resignation. It had nothing to do with wiped tapes. But I guess they can think that as long as they aren’t teaching history.

Why is this important now? Some would notice that the 50 year curse is set to strike again. I’ve even heard of something else that could be worse relating to 80 year intervals set to happen in the near future. But that’s a different post entirely. Whether or not Trump is guilty of anything, we do know that people in his administration seem to be embroiled in one scandal after another. Maybe he is guilty of nothing. We know that the DNC headquarters was hacked by the Russians with the information relating to released just before the Democratic national convention. Trump did call for them to hack into Hilary Clinton’s emails. But there is shady business going on and I thought that I would do a reminder of this and the scandals that came before it.

I might as well finish writing this post as there isn’t much else to say. There have been scandals outside of these 50 year intervals, but these are just what could be considered the most notable ones. I read about this in the book mentioned previously in this post and it has a warning that we should brace ourselves for the early 2020s. Will it happen again?