Poll ranks Biden as 14th-best president, with Trump last

[Morrison71]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/politics/biden-trump-presidential-rankings.html

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A new poll of historians coming out on Presidents' Day weekend ranks Mr. Biden as the 14th-best president in American history, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan and Ulysses S. Grant. While that may not get Mr. Biden a spot on Mount Rushmore, it certainly puts him well ahead of Mr. Trump, who places dead last as the worst president ever.

"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," wrote Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, the college professors who conducted the survey and announced the results in The Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Trump might not care much what a bunch of academics think, but for what it's worth he fares badly even among the self-identified Republican historians. Finishing 45th overall, Mr. Trump trails even the mid-19th-century failures who blundered the country into a civil war or botched its aftermath like James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce and Andrew Johnson.

As usual, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson top the list, and historians generally share similar views of many presidents regardless of their own personal ideology or partisan affiliation. But some modern presidents generate more splits among the historians along party lines.

The survey, conducted by Mr. Vaughn, an associate professor of political science at Coastal Carolina University, and Mr. Rottinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, was based on 154 responses from scholars across the country.

 

[cigaretteman]

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/thre...ential-experts-ranks-biden-last-place.437736/

 

[Joes Place]

Matthew 20:16 “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”

MAGA: "See - Trump is #1!!!!"

 

[Ghee Buttersnaps]

14th is a bit high. Nailed Trump, though.

Also, if Joe's biggest accomplishment is beating Trump (the last-place ranking President), isn't that like being proud of winning a gold medal in the Special Olympics despite the fact you don't have a disability?

 

[jonesy5960]

They're both too high.