except for during a couple years during Trump's presidency. Since, you know, he was one of the few people in the US government recently who has been half-way competent.
I know Ash is just LARPing, but I'll humor this argument just to point out that George Washington was arguably the only good president America has had or ever will have for the sole fact that he told the first Americans not to create political parties, for all they'd do was just divide the country.
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Every single president thereafter might as well have taken a piss on his grave. The man wasn't perfect by any means, but you can't help but think that maybe he was onto something here. And if you want to say "yeah, but there were some good presidents after!" then you could make the case it all ended when Teddy lost to Wilson.
You could give a bone to Ike, whose platform would make him "woke" today, though.
Poor America. Strangled in its crib before it even learned how to walk.