Do businessmen make good presidents?

[lpetrich]

History shows businessmen make bad presidents | TheHill. Combining with  Historical rankings of presidents of the United States, I find

• 2: Franklin D. Roosevelt -- CP (Career Politician)
• 4: Theodore Roosevelt -- CP
• 6: Harry S. Truman -- CP
• 7: Woodrow Wilson -- Professor, Politician
• 8: Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Military Commander
• 10: John F. Kennedy -- CP
• 11: Barack Obama -- Lawyer, Professor, Politician
• 13: Lyndon B. Johnson -- CP
• 16: Ronald Reagan -- Actor, Union Leader, Politician
• 18: Bill Clinton -- CP
• 19: William McKinley -- CP
• 22: George H. W. Bush -- Businessman, CP
• 23: William Howard Taft -- CP
• 26: Gerald R. Ford -- CP
• 27: Jimmy Carter -- Businessman, CP
• 30: Calvin Coolidge -- CP
• 32: George W. Bush -- Businessman, Politician
• 33: Richard M. Nixon -- CP
• 34: Herbert Hoover -- Businessman, Commerce Secretary
• 42: Warren G. Harding -- Businessman, CP

Donald Trump was elected President because he projected the image of being a great businessman. Even though he has not been a very good one.

 

[Valjean]

How did Wilson make it to #7?

 

[untermensche]

There can be no more good presidents.

They are all trapped within the military industrial complex. Constant war because it is very profitable to some as Orwell promised.

They are not in charge.

They are institutional actors and their role is constrained by the structures around them.

 

[Underseer]

Nearly every business is run as a feudal fiefdom. Electing business leaders to a democratic government is kind of insane.

At the very minimum, we should elect an equal number of scientists to balance out the feudalist tendencies of businessmen with the anarchy of scientists.