Yup. One other very good IR reason to hate Wilson is that he played a key role in the eventual failure of the 1919 Versailles treaty- thus unintentionally helping to cause WW2 two decades later. This is true regardless of one’s view of what exactly went wrong with it /1 https://twitter.com/smotus/status/1277051215294021632

For example, if you believe that the treaty, through the creation of a US-UK-French alliance & the League of Nation, could have prevented WW2 if the US senate approved it then Wilson's mismanagement of the ratification process played a key role in why the treaty was rejected /2

Wilson didn’t bother consulting/updating the senators about the treaty, leaving them to get updated on it from the media. When the senate narrowly rejected it for 1st time Wilson refused to add any reservations whatsoever in response to senators complaints- insuring its defeat /3

Scholars who studied the ratification failure agree that only 12-18 senators were Irreconcilables- i.e. opposed to it at any terms. Most opponents wanted reservations that could be reasonably accommodated w/out killing key parts of Versailles treaty /4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreconcilables#:~:text=The%20Irreconcilables%20were%20bitter%20opponents,by%20the%20Senate%20in%201919.

Indeed many similar reservations to those proposed in 1919 were added in order to approve many post-WW2 US alliance treaties (like clarifying whether it would commit US to an automatic entry into a war) w/out affecting in any major way their ability to provide security etc. /5

So if you think that it was the US senate’s rejection of the Versailles treaty that helped lead to WW2, Wilson’s neglect of senate during the negotiations & pigheadedness afterwards about not adding any reservations whatsoever is one key cause for that /6

Alternatively, if you think that the Versailles treaty was too tough on Germany and/or included punitive measures (like reparations) that made the effects of the Great Depression worse (esp. in Germany) & helped lead to German revisionism & Hitler, its Wilson’s fault as well /7

The US after WW1 had massive leverage over other key participants in Versailles conference (UK, France, & Italy) due to its wartime loans to them- so Wilson could have blocked many punitive measures against Germany which he thought were unwise. So why didn’t Wilson do that? /8

Well scholars note that one reason was Wilson’s obsession w/creating the League of Nations in his dream form. In order to get their consent for a new IO he needed to concede on other topics- one of which was in regard to punitive measures on Germany /9 https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HhfceQZ3pmoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=kissinger+diplomacy+book&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcteCUu6TqAhUtE6YKHY5bDCoQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=kissinger%20diplomacy%20book&f=false

Likewise Wilson made the punitive measures have an even more negative effect on Germany by doing a FIRC at the end of WW1, pressuring German leadership to remove Kaiser Wilhelm II with promise of a lenient peace treaty if they did /10

So when they did so, & Wilson permitted a Versailles treaty that was seen by most Germans as punitive they felt betrayed. Even worse it associated the Weimar Republic, instead of the Kaiser, w/the punitive measures of the treaty thus weakening its foundations from the start /11

& this is just one of many International Relations reasons why Wilson was an awful president and deserves to be hated. You’d need a far longer thread to list his other FP failures elsewhere & in this treaty w/other bad effects (such as Vera Cruz). /12 @DenisonBe @ProfPaulPoast