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.

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    9 months ago

    Hahaha at Vaughn and Rottinghaus low-key throwing shade at Biden. Let’s look at their quote closely:

    Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump,

    translation: his greatest achievement has been not being Trump

    resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership,

    than Trump (of course)

    and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,”

    Predicted greatest legacy in the hopefully remaining four years: Be re-elected. Lol

    Man i dunno if it was on purpose to basically reduce his legacy to “better than nothing” but they certainly stopped well short of praise, didn’t they?