Historian Reacts - The 1868 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Armchair Historian

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[@johnsendavid6996]

I love how you never ask for like on your own videos but iterate to give likes to the content creators. Plus you dont need to ask for likes, your content speaks for itself

[@tintim85]

If this impeachment had happened it would have shifted American political power firmly towards congress. This trail is important to study for that reason alone.

[@jyu467]

The Gilded Age ended up being a period dominated by Congress anyway. It wouldn't be until Theodore Roosevelt when we got another president that exerted his power.

[@richeybaumann1755]

The impeachment did happen. Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House. He survived removal by a single vote, but the impeachment-- that is, the probable cause for removal- was passed by the House of Representatives.

[@sdonnervt826]

The impeachment did happen. He just wasn't removed from office.

[@tylerjerabek5204]

You mean “if he’d been convicted” He was impeached- as was Trump and B Clinton but none were convicted by 2/3 majority

[@WomeESQ]

West Virginia declared its statehood through a constitutional loophole. As VA left the union, the western counties rejoined the USA as the official state of virginia(not west virginia) Otherwise, counties cannot choose to leave a state.

[@seams4186]

Oh, that's interesting

[@sickzappybeef9209]

Then how did Maine become a state?

[@WebsterFiveOneFour]

@@sickzappybeef9209 it was part of the Missouri compromise. Massachusetts and Congress agreed to admit Maine as a free state. The voters on the mainland of Massachusetts voted to leave, and Maine drafted and passed Maine's constitution and was sent to Congress for approval. Congress compromised adding Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

[@rootintootincowboy988]

You know this reaction’s gonna be good when the video is double the length of the original video 🔥

[@jokstrjaxn8d445]

My favorite thing about this channel is that you always know if someone in American history is or is not from Ohio 18:45

[@Jamie95326]

I have never heard of a monarch overthrowing another monarch as being a form of impeachment before 😂

[@sadettinarslan5324]

We call it conquest 😁

[@FazeParticles]

A monarch’s worse form of impeachment is execution.

[@dogguy8603]

Mandate of Heaven

[@David-fm6go]

8:05 City dwelling Northerners yes but two points need to be made here 1. Catholic immigrants in cities overwhelmingly backed the Democrats while Republicans often came across as either protestant moralists or nativists. Lincoln rejected nativism but a lot of Republicans particularly ex know nothings embraced it and it would come back in 1874 and 1884 to bite the Republicans. 2. This is before the wave of urbanization and this is before white flight surburbia, so this urban population would be wealthier and more business or commerce oriented. This is always overlooked when discussing Federalist, Whig and Republican support in urban areas versus rural support for their opponents. A similar thing happened much later in the South as urbanization of the poor and suburbanization of the middle class flipped Sunbelt cities Democratic in the 1990s and 2000s after having been Republican since the 50s. Dallas, Tampa, Charlotte and Houston went through this process.

[@a4ron213]

To me Andrew Johnson is the 2nd worst president, behind buchanan. If Hamlin stayed Lincolns vp, he would have been a way better president

[@a4ron213]

Actually I think Johnson is the worst president

[@jyu467]

Franklin Pierce finishes out the unholy trinity. The Kansas-Nebraska Act did more to set us on the path of Civil War than any other law.

[@crusader2112]

Nah. To me, the worst President is Woodrow Wilson. He lied, saying he wouldn’t get us involved in WW1, had a showing of “Birth of a Nation” which gave way to a resurgence in Kl*n activity, and worst of all: The “Federal” Reserve Act of 1913 that he even regretted signing, because he sold his nation our country out to the Big Banks and Bankers like JP Morgan Jr.

[@kayvan671]

Woodrow Wilson?

[@kayvan671]

@@crusader2112 Exactly. Atleast someone with common sense.

[@emperorofrome692]

9:36 I'm proudly from a pro-Union county in Alabama.

[@chesterparish3794]

Thats great.

[@samiam619]

@@philmccracken7520 I would bet his pro-Union county is bigger than your entire State!

[@carl5381]

hooray for you

[@terranterrell224]

I will leave you with this quote from Fredrick Douglass, which further justifies the commentary you made around the 19:50 mark on this video. I believe this occured during the innauguration for Lincoln's second term: As Douglass would write 16 years later in “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” he noticed Johnson glancing at him with a look of “bitter contempt and aversion.” Douglass turned to his companion and said, “Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he certainly is no friend of our race.”

[@seanpayne2470]

love that you leave modern politics out of it. there’s a time and a place lol

[@drakewheeler8698]

Would love to see you interview Mr. Beat with his new podcast/interview question series up now.

[@blitzen435]

I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure he said they are doing something in the next few months

[@austinroberts7546]

Screw Mr. Beats he is a typical crazy left wing liberal

[@dontbethatguy2881]

@@austinroberts7546 how colorful

[@DaMathias]

@@austinroberts7546this is the problem with out politics at the moment. We’re too divided. We all have our own beliefs, some of identify with the right and some of us to the left. So Can’t we just respect other people’s political beliefs and stop basing your opinions of that person solely on that?

[@sandybarnes887]

@@blitzen435 you are right, good sir. I heard him mention a collaboration soon as well.

[@xXRazorbacksXx]

Checking in for my daily history lesson. Hope you and yours are doing well! God bless ya man.

[@chrisschotsman3240]

Love the episodes with your explanation of it all. I’m from the Netherlands and fascinated with the civil war. Stanton is a very interesting person from the period after the civil war. Keep it up 👍🏻

[@TheWindcrow]

I'm trying to catch up on all your content. Your insight helps clear things up that are otherwise skimmed over.

[@vyke9417]

you're such a goat not even a single dislike pretty good community im happy to be a part of

[@owenlees1832]

Big win for the Baggies yesterday, hope you were able to watch. Great video again as always.

[@johnhammonds5143]

6:15 The House has a 2-year election cycle because the founders knew that in popular votes the public could vote in people who were totally unsuitable for public office, but were popular back home. A 2-year cycle gave the government frequent opportunities to correct electoral mistakes. This issue is exacerbated by gerrymandering, where most House seats are "safe", and difficult to replace a sitting representative.

[@jarrodmurdock5689]

Actually at first the Radical Republicans were somewhat hopeful about Johnson. In fact, a few of them are on record expressing satisfaction that Lincoln was out of the way. Given their frustration with Lincoln’s relatively lenient policy towards the South, they believed Johnson’s hatred for the southern planter class would make him more agreeable to their plans.

[@Sprayber]

There was a significant number of people in Arkansas who opposed secession. In the Northern and western parts of the state many men joined the the Union effort.

[@goosegame3857]

I’ve read many online articles ranking presidents and I’m shocked to see Johnson and Woodrow to be ranked higher then Nixon and trump I’m not saying trump was a good president but he shouldn’t be ranked at all for at least a decade until his presidency can be fully examined

[@jyu467]

It's a liberal bias in academia.

[@algini12]

Yes, and it brings up an interesting point on how they rate presidents, that was never there before. Whether a president's demeanor is as important or is more important than policy or accomplishment. Both David McCullough and Doris Kerns Goodwin, the two heavies on presidential history, were seriously disapproving of Trump. Most of it based on demeanor.That demeanor as we know was established by Washington himself. It's clear that the passage of decades tend to blur the proximity opinions of the past. It was interesting to see that after more than 70 years closer to the bottom, that Truman has skyrocketed to near the top. Can't remember where, but I even saw him rated once in the top 3, behind Lincoln and Washington! More important than those proximity opinions is how what they did may have changed the country for the better over the proceeding decades. I'll leave my opinion on Trump out of this. I won't live 7 more decades to see, but I won't be surprised either if Trump gets some rocket fuel toward the top himself.

[@sultanofsick]

ANY presidential ranking list is going to be political bias masquerading as history

[@algini12]

@@sultanofsick Not necessarily. Most presidential ratings I see go by policy and accomplishments. What they did, versus personality. He who has the most accomplishments, wins, or goes higher up the list especially as time shows the affects of what they did, sometimes decades later. That's how Truman went skyrocketing up the list, from the near bottom to maybe 4th best in some, and even 3rd best president of all time in others. Nixon resigned. This is an outlier blemish that;'s hard to overcome. He is rising now though after opening up China, and saving Israel in the Yom Kippur war, or staring down Saudi Arabia in the oil embargo. Trump has a lot of accomplishments that are ignored now. But watch out, he's going to rise on the list as they can't be ignored.

[@sultanofsick]

@@algini12 I don't doubt that the lists are made based on policy and accomplishments. But people are going to disagree on what constitutes good policy or accomplishments. I view tariffs protecting American industry and economy as a good thing. Some people see higher prices for imported goods and call it terrible. Some call it racist. By my metric, a president who does absolutely nothing for 4 or 8 years is better than one making "accomplishments" while ever growing the bureaucratic power of the state and chipping away at liberty.

[@johndoe6260]

I love how the songs In the video are Victoria 2 ones, I don't know if they were made for the game or already existed, but they fit the mood perfectly

[@nborr258]

I think a video discussing West Virginia's secession from VA would be fun. Without giving away too much it may or may not have be illegal under the Constitution

[@OfficialAgentGaming]

As someone from Greeneville I implore you to visit our town in the future and make some History on Location videos about the history of our town as well as the history of Andrew Johnson, because our town views Andrew Johnson as a saint. And our local school curriculum on the topic of the worst president in history is very sad to say the least.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Worst president is a competitive field, unfortunately.

[@sjduges67]

Two corrections to your information. The presidential succession act of 1947 is the current act that governs the line of presidential succession, not an amendment. Andrew Johnson was also acquitted because enough senators believed that he was the President of the United States, not acting president, and therefore had every right to fire Stanton. Lincoln’s appointments died with him.

[@MrCrisTheRo]

I really like your take on things. I know I've argued and had dissenting views, mostly on the civil war, but I really enjoy your work. I agree on your take on Andrew Johnson and how he botched reconstruction. He had an interesting life. Keep up the great content bud!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

He didn’t botch it. He basically did exactly what the former slave owners wanted.

[@justinbrutchen3811]

19:00 Is that "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel"? Great Civil War song! Also love your videos man!

[@nealgerarde6062]

Like your videos!

[@lukethomas8573]

I'm from Eastern Tennessee! If you've ever heard the story of the Overmountain-men you know why we were still loyal to the union in the Civil War. Its a cool story to look into if you haven't! I was taught in school that my town (Elizabethton) was technically the first city in Tennessee to fall to the Union, because as soon as the conscripted soldiers left, citizens took down the Confederate flag and raised the Union flag. The area also spent most of the war under martial law after an attempted train bombing (if I remember right). Also where Johnson died eventually.

[@Muppetfan25Productions]

Hey Chris notice the music in the background, it’s from Victoria II, a grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive.

[@davethedude216]

One of my favorite KZbinrs, only you could make me excited for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson

[@coxmosia1]

Loving your channel since I discovered it on KZbin. Anyway, can you do "The Christmas Truce", by extra history/extra credits. I'd love to see your take on it and hear your knowledge about it. It looks to be a 2 parter. Here's the link:.

[@marksanborn6357]

Is part 3 of your reconstruction series coming soon? Is it posted and I missed it? Thanks!

[@justincoleman7856]

Hey @Vlogging Through History, you probably already know this but I was just reading through my textbook as im currently studying Texas History and it talked about how some of the areas were Pro-Union during the Civil War and unfortunately there were some minor skirmishes in my state just between citizens because of this beliefs during the Civil War (neither party fought in the war according to the book), but of course most people don't know about that.

[@spazmataz]

Yeah, in my cali history book it talks about how some southern states had large pro union views, and even the leader of the confederates didn’t want the south to leave, but the fear of losing slavery (amongst many other things) pushed them too far.

[@ralphdougherty1844]

I would love to see your take on the Toledo War

[@samiam619]

Here’s the short version. We (Michigan) won the Toledo War by letting Ohio have the Toledo Strip and getting the Upper Peninsula as compensation.

[@ralphdougherty1844]

@@samiam619Don’t think I asked you but…thanks?

[@David-fm6go]

21:00 Curtis was one of two dissenting Justices on the Dred Scott case.

[@privilegedchromosome]

Can you make a video discussing the Franklin Pierce and Abraham Lincoln friendship? Apparently, Pierce was extremely vocal of Lincolns Presidency.

[@blogbalkanstories4805]

So, did I understand that correctly: The Senate did not vote on all articels of impeachment but adjourned the trial? If so, interesting strategy. Understandable after the obvious deadlock, but a bit confusing.

[@soumajitsen1395]

Did anyone else notice the Victoria 2 music in the background?

[@timhare9867]

The English Monarch cannot be impeached...Cromwell obviously never got that memo.

[@hunterofhotdogs4505]

don't forget that Lincoln also wanted to be soft on the south so his death may be what saved this rep

[@claytoncannella2095]

Veterans day is coming up and I know its a little different than what veterans day stands for but Armchair historian. Posted a video about German soldiers after ww2. I would be very interested to hear your take on it.

[@deepak6043]

Is forgotten history 6 coming soon?

[@Smtphotography]

If you are a fan of sabaton you like the band civil war. They got a song called the USS Monitor and yes it is about the ironclad

[@chuggaaconroyII]

have you been on netflix? if so I recommend the lost pirate kingdom it's a great docuseries

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Andrew Johnson... if not for Woodrow Wilson who's now basically ruined an entire century of American Politics, I'd say the worst president we ever had. It's almost a shame that people somehow think both of them either weren't bad or actually good...

[@Spitfire_1940]

I believe if Abraham Lincoln lived, he could've been impeached himself for how he suspended habeas corpus. Not saying he would get kicked out of office nor should he have been (In my opinion anyways).

[@GageEakins]

No he wouldn't have. He initially suspended habious corpos on federal railway lines and gave a legal argument for why he did so, that being to ensure Congress could use those rail lines to convene. When it was actually suspended for the full country it was done so with Congressional approval. Also the Congress was overwhelmingly controlled by the Republicans at the time.

[@Spitfire_1940]

@@GageEakins fair enough, I didnt know that. Thanks for clearing it up.

[@spazmataz]

Tbh though he prob would have anyways though because Andrew Johnson more or less continued Lincoln’s idea but with a little more southern bias my best example off the top my head is the 10% state requirement to come back into the union.

[@David-fm6go]

@@Spitfire_1940 Republicans held a majority in the House from 1860 ( plurality after 1858) until 1874. Republicans held a majority in the Senate until I think 1878 or 1880.

[@morganmcallister2001]

It's possible. There are many constitutional questions about Lincoln's actions. Imprisoning members of the Maryland legislature so that they aren't present to vote on secession comes to mind. The key difference between Johnson and Lincoln isn't actually their plans for reconstruction, but the personalities and their political styles. Johnson picked fights and dug in his heels even when he knew he couldn't win in the end. Lincoln was far more adept at saying what people wanted to hear while keeping his options open for different actions later on. Furthermore Lincoln was actually a Republican and a mostly popular one from the North's perspective. While it's possible and there's legal questions about whether he should have been, it's unlikely.

[@ryanstebbins3102]

You need to watch the series Extra Credits is doing on the British conquest of India when they are done. The dunk on armchair historian.

[@hyperion9911]

Any of you seen that game armchair historian is making? Fire and Maneuver I think it’s called

[@19kilo40]

Could you make a video about John Bell Hood Confederate general?

[@Littleryan16]

Brilliant Video, Keep it up love this Channel i learn a lot more from these videos than i do at school!! This Channel deserves 1 Million Subscribers and the Gaming Channel 100K. But in my Opinion Johnson is One of the worse President With James Buchanan

[@oliversherman2414]

As a Brit this reminded me a little bit of England post English Civil War. Except King Charles the 1st was executed, not impeached

[@sokol9263]

Actually Lafayette S. Foster was the Pro Temp in 1865, not Wade, so if Johnson died he would've became Acting President.

[@Nebulasecura]

God i hate whoever gave that SINGLE vote to Johnson, that president held back African Americans for GENERATIONS after he died! 😤

[@igloo.550]

well technically every single person who voted for Johnson was that single vote

[@NPDGX]

@@igloo.550 He was the VP for Lincoln, and put into office of presidency by the assassination.

[@Disneymagic24]

@@NPDGX and the reason Lincoln picked him as vip was so,he could show he could work with the other side

[@igloo.550]

@@NPDGX When i say 'voted for Johnson', I mean those who voted agaisnt the impeachment articles.

[@shanemccluney4399]

I hate to say it, but the damage that Johnson’s presidency did to the country’s future had already been done by the time he was impeached. Remember this was happening only months before the 1868 election

[@coldnia]

I agree that Johnson was a major problem in reconstruction but I’m not convinced that Lincoln wouldn’t have been for the long term issues that came from the Johnson presidency.

[@David-fm6go]

As you said not every Whig became a Republican especially the Southern ones but also some in the North. On the flip side a lot of Democrats did in the North either directly or with the Free Soil Party as an interim affiliation. To their point about Democrats being the party of planters, this is only true from the 1850s onwards. Southern Whigs often were the preferred party of planters and even as late as 1860 Bell is getting a lot of plantation and river counties. Over the 1850s this plantation vote migrates to the Democrats. Democrats were originally the party of the up country south like NE MS, Northern Alabama, Arkansas, Central TN etc. Forcing these two together is what leads to brutal primaries in the Solid South era between city/ low country Bourbon Democrats and more up country based populists. Then you get into the mountains and you get into Whig country again. The mountain whig vote went to the Republicans, which is why East TN has been Republican since the Civil War. The up country and the mountain areas detested the low country/ plantation elites, which is why for a time Johnson wanted to hang the leading Confederates.

[@chancellor1055]

I would love if reacted to whatifalthist.

[@andrewjennings7306]

Yeah his more recent videos are on a new level of brain expanding.

[@chesterparish3794]

Why do people like Whatifalthist? I never liked him and I think his new stuff is even worse.

[@chancellor1055]

@@chesterparish3794 I started not likening his new stuff but his older stuff are among my favorite videos.

[@andrewjennings7306]

@@chesterparish3794 why?

[@BountyFlamor]

Could you elaborate how exactly Johnson messed up reconstruction during his term? In your series on reconstruction you talked about how Grant got serious about it after Johnson, but I don't think you explained why Grant couldn't just have fixed what Johnson had done or not done. What did Johnson do that was irrevocable?

[@CrumbledCheese]

I would also like to hear more on this.

[@MrBigE100]

Grant did a lot to fix it, but in the 1876 election, both the Democratic and Republican candidates were committed to ending Reconstruction and withdrawing Federal troops from the South. If Grant had been able to get a third term or at least a Republican candidate had been nominated who was committed to Reconstruction and won, it wouldn't have ended as soon as it did

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@MrBigE100 United States v. Cruikshank was a big part of it too.

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Worth noting I think, and you kind of touched on it. "Abolitionist" often gets conflated with "Against Slavery". Wasn't really the case at the time. They were two distinct views going on. Abolitionists wanted the abolishing of slavery, obviously. But also wanted citizenship for freed slaves. Anti-Slavery positions typically gave the view that for various reasons from economic (A flood of unskilled laborers with no money and prospects) to political (racial tensions and the like between former slaves and former slave owners) that the right answer was to send the problem somewhere else. Thus places like Liberia and the Maryland Colony in Africa. Republicans were by an large all against Slavery, but many of them were merely that "Anti-Slavery" position of sending the problem away. Including Lincoln until he had some face to face chats with Frederick Douglas.

[@gabetv468]

I think that Andrew Johnson should have just been let go instead of being impeached. But some people just seem to have that same thoughts as he did.

[@landonroy6723]

The reason he was impeached was because of the office of tenure act which ironically was ruled unconstitutional

[@DizzyMapping]

You should react to the dumbest Russian voyage video by blue jay, it’s pretty interesting

[@gyunayify]

Can you react to the Internet Historian?

[@josecambronero9419]

With a name like Thaddeus Stevens it seems impossible for the guy not to be radical.

[@TheDustin151]

Its also important to remember that these parties did not switch. That is a myth.

[@youtubecontent6394]

Hard to comprehend why anyone think they did. Just look at the 1976 election map. Hell, even the ‘92/‘96 maps. This modern electorate started in 2000.

[@oceanplanet8160]

That's the conservative myth.

[@jyu467]

@@youtubecontent6394 What many people won't accept is that the South has changed dramatically. It's not the Jim Crow South of yesteryear. As the South industrialized, urbanized, and as immigration to the region grew, the South lost their racist identity.

[@jyu467]

Don't you know about the great conservative Democrat FDR and the great liberal Republican Calvin Coolidge?

[@zackattack366]

Switch no, change over time certainly. Both parties have changed significantly just over the last 10 years.

[@kadiryildiz1862]

Could you react to „ last witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've got a secret "

[@gangulsamaranayake]

I think we had an oblique idea of chris's political orientation. And if my guesses are correct. Ihave to agree with him 100%.

[@grantdowling8550]

23:15 nice words but I would argue that that is just another case of American policians prioritizing upholding the glorious Constitution over the good of the American people. Am I wrong? I dislike how often in momentous occasions like this one in this country's history that people in power have used that excuse.

[@Viki4a]

Can you react to ww1 in nutshell by icaraball?

[@Viki4a]

Icaria*

[@deusvult8435]

Remember Remember the fith of November. Be cool if he did a guy fox video today

[@Justin-hy5gl]

Please react to drew durnil or play rise of kingdoms on your gaming channel

[@jwatts56]

Victoria 2 music

[@pocketsycho8720]

So i have a quick question for the historian. Would you think that if Johnson was removed from office if whoever took over would have been better for the future of the United States

[@TheStasznik]

Side note, any chance to not get that "heavy breath" at the start of every video? It is something that scares me every time... :(

[@JC-mx9su]

Threw Kingdoms - Oversimplified. Make a reaction video.🙂🙂🙂

[@Thraim.]

Don't know about their comment section but here it looks fine.

[@pablo2448]

1 vote! Just 1 vote!

[@savagedarksider5934]

I honestly prefer Andrew Jackson over Andrew Johnson.

[@Nebulasecura]

Same. Hell most of the Presidents are better than him

[@crusader2112]

“I fought the Banks”. He was pretty cool when it came to fighting against Big Banks and paying off our Debt, although the trail of tears was an unfortunate tragedy.

[@savagedarksider5934]

@@Nebulasecura To think while Germany had Otto Von Bismarck around this time, we got stuck with Andrew Johnson.

[@Nebulasecura]

@@crusader2112 it was indeed. That’s the best way to describe it, as it was most likely going to happen no matter who was president at that time. Remember native Americans and the country have had rocky relations ever since the colonists arrived

[@crusader2112]

@@Nebulasecura Yeah, the American Colonists always wanted to go West. So yeah, the conflict was most likely inevitable. Anyways. Take care and Peace. ✌🏻

[@andrewjohnson8903]

Hey, I wasn’t that bad

[@ubiergo1978]

I guess because I'm not USA citizen at all, but... watching these videos... USA is like "Ohio and some friends" club =P

[@angelskaixo5188]

Unpopular Opinion: despite the moral correctness/incorrectness of the matters of the time, one truth stands above all: the country hasn't healed from the Civil War yet, and that it the governments fault. While it was a tall order, they needed to secure the rights of freedmen, AND make the South feel like the government was being fair. The Civil War was a wound, and Reconstruction was the treatment. We could have healed with barely any scar, but we rubbed dirt in it and kept it uncovered, and 100 years later, we had a scar to rival all scars.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

A lot of it comes from the problems of Reconstruction - it basically recreated the slave system in everything but name. Letting the South be part of governing again so soon after the war was a mistake.

[@angelskaixo5188]

@@Justanotherconsumer I disagree, I think that summing it up to that one point is foolish. Hundreds of good policies needed put in place, and honestly, Lincoln might have been the only man capable of doing it in his time.

[@someonenew439]

15:40 that is why I love the Supreme Court. Probably the most consistent branch of the federal government.

[@GageEakins]

That ridiculous statement shows you don't know anything about the Supreme Court.

[@someonenew439]

@@GageEakins how so?

[@someonenew439]

@@GageEakins how have they not been consistent?

[@GageEakins]

@@someonenew439 They have changed their minds throughout the years as justices have left and new justices have taken over. Also, many times throughout the history of the court they have made their decisions not based in any legal sense but simply because that was their political beliefs.

[@someonenew439]

@@GageEakins human error i guess. But I simply disagree. The court has been extremely consistent. I would argue they have been 99% right on all court decisions.

[@defiantlykante8157]

We’re having an election in Jersey right now go Murphy

[@libertyrules5235]

Ah yes, what I time to be alive.

[@joshuagriffin9616]

Great video! Tbh, I think removing Johnson would've been a great decision. Shame it only failed because people didn't want the alternative even tho it probably would've been better.

[@samiam619]

There have been a few times where to convict the President would have put a worse man in power.

[@hbk314]

The ends don't justify the means. His impeachment was completely baseless and was an abuse of the process. Clinton's was based on actual wrongdoing, but it was unrelated to his job as President. Trump's were both directly related to his role as President, and his subsequent acquittals in the Senate have all but destroyed impeachment as a check on a President by showing a major party will stand by their president regardless of how clear his guilt is.

[@KYRONROCKS101]

How dare you leave us and not educate us?

[@BIGONE276]

why does government adventually become so aristocratic?

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Was it ever not? Probably less aristocratic now than it was when the Constitution was signed.

[@gokeyher486]

React to mitt Romney vs Obama ERB

[@bulldogmadhav5762]

Andy was is really unfit to be president I wish congress could have removed him

[@lucachayer8745]

This guy fucking loves Ohio

[@bryant4972]

S

[@Thisandthat8908]

the whole Trump affair has shown that there are not really any working tools in the Us constitution to hold a sitting president responsible and remove an abusive one, IF he is supported by his party. Not saying Trump was that (but only for the sake of argument) but it shows how helpless the US was/would be in that case.

[@Garretty66]

500th like

[@thatiowan3581]

Your mom was my 500th like

[@victorcharles27]

10th🙂

[@thatiowan3581]

Your mom was my 10th🙂

[@venomousstriker4715]

Can you take the political compass test I know your a history channel but I think we would all like to see where you lie on the political spectrum

[@LoyalHistoryBuff]

I think that is too personal.

[@venomousstriker4715]

@@LoyalHistoryBuff what do you mean by personal

[@LoyalHistoryBuff]

@@venomousstriker4715 For one, he will have to talk about modern politics and he wants to avoid that in his videos. Second, Mr. Beat didn’t do it for himself in his videos(through he did it for presidents in one of his videos, but still), so why should Chris do it? Frankly, it’s really not our business.

[@venomousstriker4715]

@@LoyalHistoryBuff I guess your right but I was just curious

[@LoyalHistoryBuff]

@@venomousstriker4715 none wrong with that, just be careful with the questions, okay?

[@notyouraverageasshole4830]

Reconstruction ? lmao call it what it was Forced Compliance