Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war

Donald Trump finished 45th and rock bottom of a list ranking US presidents by greatness, trailing even “historically calamitous chief executives” who failed to stop the civil war or botched its aftermath.

Worse for the likely Republican nominee this year, his probable opponent, Joe Biden, debuted at No 14.

“Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump, resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,” Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, the political scientists behind the survey, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

  • @problematicPanther
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    -1110 months ago

    basically that’s why he was elected. he wasn’t trump. That’s his whole platform, that’s it. It’s not necessarily a bad platform, but it’s not really gonna leave much, as far as his legacy is concerned.

    • @cheesebag
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      2310 months ago

      he wasn’t trump. That’s his whole platform, that’s it.

      Sorry, but this is one of those hyperbolic, uninformed, useless hot takes the Internet LOVES. You can literally look up his platform online, like so many places.

      Here’s Politifact tracking 99 of his campaign promises.
      27 kept 5 compromised 1 broken 31 stalled 34 in the works

      • @[email protected]
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        fedilink
        710 months ago

        I love these comments. Required the absolute minimum amount of work/“research” and yet utterly devastating and unrefutable response.

        inseet honest work doing my part memes