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Opinion | What Trump Looks Like to Historians
Trump has changed everything and nothing.
www.nytimes.com
As...
By Thomas B. Edsall
...has pointed out in the NYT, when historians and political scientists rank presidents from best to worst, Donald Trump invariably comes out at the bottom. No surprise to most people who pay attention to realities and put aside emotions and political opinions.
People can and most likely will attack the professionals, but I'm sure they are in the right here. It's okay. History can be rewritten, but it can never really be buried. Somebody will eventually dig up the facts.
This year, to give one example, the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project released the results of a survey of 154 current and former members of the presidents and executive politics section of the American Political Science Association.
The highest ranked included no surprises: on a scale of 0 to 100, Abraham Lincoln (95.03), Franklin Roosevelt (90.83), George Washington (90.32), Teddy Roosevelt (78.58) and Thomas Jefferson (77.53).
Dead last: Donald Trump (10.92), substantially below James Buchanan (16.71), Andrew Johnson (21.56), Franklin Pierce (24.6) and William Henry Harrison (26.01).