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opens his mouth he makes a laughing stock out of himself.
His brainwashed cult is too dim to realize it.
He could shit in their mouths and receive their praise.
Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Biden 14th greatest
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.
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Worse for the likely Republican nominee this year, his probable opponent,
Joe Biden, debuted at No 14.
Bidens 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 predecessors
hands this fall, Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, the political
scientists behind the survey, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.
Rottinghaus, of the University of Houston, and Vaughn, from Coastal
Carolina University, considered responses from 154 scholars, most
connected to the American Political Science Association.
The aim, the authors said, was to create a ranking of presidential
greatness that covered all presidents from George Washington to Joe
Biden, in succession to such lists compiled in 2015 and 2018.
To do this, we asked respondents to rate each president on a scale of 0-
100 for their overall greatness, with 0=failure, 50=average, and 100
=great. We then averaged the ratings for each president and ranked them
from highest average to lowest.
At the top of the chart, there was little change from previous surveys
the latter of which also saw Trump, then in office, placed last.
Abraham Lincoln, who won the civil war and ended slavery, was ranked
first, ahead of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who saw the US through the
Great Depression and the second world war. Next came George Washington,
the first president, who won independence from Britain, then Teddy
Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Harry Truman.
Barack Obama, the first Black president, to whom Biden was vice-president
between 2009 and 2017, was seventh, up nine places.
Considering drops for Andrew Jackson (ninth in 2015 to 21st now) and
Woodrow Wilson (10th to 15th), Rottinghaus and Vaughn noted the impact of
campaigns for racial justice.
Their reputations have consistently suffered in recent years as modern
politics lead scholars to assess their early 19th and 20th century
presidencies ever more harshly, especially their unacceptable treatment
of marginalised people, the authors wrote.
Jackson owned enslaved people and presided over the genocidal
displacement of Native Americans. Wilson oversaw victory in the first
world war and helped set up the League of Nations, but was an avowed
racist who segregated the federal workforce.
Other major movers included Ulysses S Grant (17th, up from 26th in 2015),
whose administration generated significant corruption but whose attempts
to enforce post-civil war Reconstruction in southern states, including
fighting the Ku Klux Klan, have helped fuel reconsideration.
Grant succeeded Andrew Johnson, Lincolns successor and the first
president to be impeached. Like Johnson, Lincolns predecessor, James
Buchanan, who failed to stop the slide to civil war, also sits higher
than Trump on Rottinghaus and Vaughns list.
Trump is a uniquely divisive figure, his legislative record slim, his
refusal to accept defeat by Biden leading to a deadly attack on Congress,
and his post-presidential career dogged by 91 criminal charges arising
from actions in office or on the campaign trail.
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In the presidential survey, Trump is also ranked behind such lowlights
as Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding and William Henry Harrison, who died a
mere 31 days after taking office, Rottinghaus and Vaughn wrote.
Trumps impact goes well beyond his own ranking and Bidens. Every
contemporary Democratic president has moved up in the ranks Barack
Obama (No 7), Bill Clinton (No 12) and even Jimmy Carter (No 22).
Yes, these presidents had great accomplishments such as expanding
healthcare access and working to end conflict in the Middle East, and
they have two Nobel prizes among them. But given their shortcomings and
failures, their rise seems to be less about reassessments of their
administrations than it is a bonus for being neither Trump nor a member
of his party.
Indeed, every modern Republican president has dropped including the
transformational Ronald Reagan (No 16) and George HW Bush (No 19), who
led the nations last decisive military victory, the Gulf war of 1991.
Accounting for Democratic climbs and Republican drops, the authors
acknowledged that academics tend to lean left but also said, with a nod
to Trump: What these results suggest is not just an added emphasis on a
presidents political affiliation, but also the emergence of a
presidents fealty to political and institutional norms as a criterion
for what makes a president great.
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As for the Americans casting a ballot for the next president [in
November], they are in the historically rare position of knowing how both
candidates have performed in the job.
Trump has not yet secured the Republican nomination but Biden trails in
most polls, prey to public concern that at 81 he is too old for a second
term, even though Trump is 77 and equally vulnerable to public gaffes
never mind his insurrectionist past.
Rottinghaus and Vaughn said: Whether [voters] will consider each
presidents commitment to the norms of presidential leadership, and come
to rate them as differently as our experts, remains to be seen.
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