Cleveland isn’t one of the faces on Mount Rushmore. He’s not
a president you learned about in grade school. The only reason I know anything about
him is because I’m such a huge Disney fan I know the obscure films nobody else
remembers, like The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band. The movie is about
a politically divided family in 1888: the year Cleveland won the popular vote
for reelection, but lost the electoral college and the presidency to Harrison.
Four years later, Cleveland ran again and won, becoming the only US president
to serve two non-consecutive terms. Until now. Everyone loves a good comeback
story, right? But this one didn’t have a happy ending. The plump, balding
president was faced with circumstances he didn’t expect and handled badly. His
second term was such a disaster, it hurt his party for years. You know what
they say, right? Learn from the past, or repeat it.
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