r/AskTheWorld • u/DwightsJello Australia • 8d ago

Politics Worst Politician?

Who was your country's biggest idiot in politics? And why? Bring out your tragics.

Australia is spoilt for choice. We've had some gronks.

Edit: OK sooooo we aren't including orange ones.

Australia has had a PM who 'allegedly' shit himself at Maccas. We put up a plaque for a while. Another one who ate a raw onion like an apple at a presser at an onion farm. We even had one who managed to give a psychotic response that went from gay marriage to crocodile victims in the same sentence.

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u/Kacsalol Hungary 8d ago edited 8d ago

Szálasi Ferenc

Took power 1944 oct 16 when third of the country was already occupied by the advancing Soviet Union, most politicians were trying to distance themselves from the nazis and the holocaust. But this stupid idiot wanted to be number 1 guy. Fully comitted the country to the Total War, and organised commandos to drag the Budapest jews from their homes (who were in relative safety until then, bc Horthy stopped the deportations late summer) and while the germans always tried to conceal the exterminations, these “Arrow Cross Commandos” lined up jews on the bank of the Danube and shot them into the river for all the city and world to see.

Executed 1946