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CSPAN's 2021 Historical Ranking of US Presidents
- Thread starter The Albatross
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True, though this is a survey of historians. Makes it extra embarrassing.
Eh, not really. Most powerful world leaders with strong militaries are involved in nasty shit of varying degrees.
You should really read into James Buchanan's presidency. He personally made sure the Dred Scott case was as bad as it was, to "solve" the slavery question.
Many of the question/responses in this thread can be answered with the provided methodology. With each President being judged on a scale for 10 separate categories, there's only so far a President can fall due to a specific weakness. A singular event can't disqualify a President's entire score like some are thinking it would.
i mean with how eager others have been and the stress of cuba I legit think his restraint was heroic
Nice seeing Wilson and Jackson continue to drop and Grant continue to rise. I don't know enough about some of the older mid-tier presidents to know if any of them should rise up just based on being boring instead of bad. I feel like I was reading something recently about Garfield being a possibly really good president had he not been assassinated?
I imagine for Reagan anyone Republican leaning is giving him lots of 10s and that's boosting any negatives others are giving him. Nostalgia is probably also helping buffer him even outside right wing leaning rankers.
I imagine for Reagan anyone Republican leaning is giving him lots of 10s and that's boosting any negatives others are giving him. Nostalgia is probably also helping buffer him even outside right wing leaning rankers.
Trump's being held up by his bad but not the worst scores in public persuasion & economic development. The 7 worst Presidents are mostly sorted by how many categories a President avoided having a bottom 5 ranking in.Trump at 41? he should be at negative.
Both are too high, but Reagan should be way, way lower on the list.
I don't really understand the methodology, but it always leaves me going "Wat?" when I see John Q. Adams being within 20 points away out of 100 from his slave-owning, slavery loving contemporaries in categories like Moral Authority and Pursuit of Equal Justice for All. Any reasonable person should put all of the slave owning presidents at the bottom of the latter category especially.
