Heh; like many, I've been wondering if Trump would dismantle US democracy faster or slower than Hitler (this is Trump's day 45; Hitler took 53). We've been ask

Heh; like many, I've been wondering if Trump would dismantle US democracy faster or slower than Hitler (this is Trump's day 45; Hitler took 53). We've been asking the wrong question: How quickly will he break the economy, and will it be a record? A quick search comes up with some runner-ups: - Herbert Hoover mismanaged the stock marker crash of 1929, leading to Hoovervilles and the Great Depression. That was multiple months after he got into office, and ended when FDR implemented the New Deal. - James Buchanan arguably caused the Panic of 1857, but that hit in August of his first year, and ended with the Civil War. https://teachnthrive.com/history-passages/u-s-passages/the-worst-u-s-presidents-for-the-economy-a-look-at-the-damage-caused/ https://teachnthrive.com/history-passages/u-s-passages/the-w... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857 So, in about 4 years, we can either expect a leader that ushers in new era of functional government and economic prosperity, or a debilitating war. Does anyone know of anyone that was faster? The searches I ran mostly came up with US leaders. I'm guessing there's at least one country with a leader that managed to stop international trade and start printing money faster than this.