A current survey of presidential students and historians ranked Joe Biden because the 14th finest president in American historical past. Sure, you learn that proper – 14th.
Biden’s presidency has been marked by quite a few crises, from the border disaster to the Afghanistan withdrawal catastrophe, to not point out the continuing financial challenges.
Biden has constantly ranked as having one of many lowest approval rankings within the nation’s historical past.
And but, the 2024 Presidential Greatness Undertaking Knowledgeable Survey, developed by the American Political Science Affiliation, in some way ranked the present President within the high third of an inventory of high Presidents. He’s basically in a tie with Founding Father and America’s second President, John Adams.
Biden ranks forward of Woodrow Wilson (15), Ronald Reagan (16), and Ulysses S. Grant (17).
President Donald Trump ranked lifeless final within the survey at forty fifth.
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Who Is The Greatest President?
It doesn’t take lengthy to comprehend that the listing of Greatest Presidents offered by the American Political Science Affiliation is an entire joke.
There isn’t a lot to quarrel with on the very high, as Abraham Lincoln is ranked because the nation’s high President. However George Washington, the primary President of the USA, a navy normal, and a Founding Father identified for his management in the course of the American Revolution and his function in establishing the USA, dropped to 3rd within the survey.
Coming in at second now’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the progressive normal bearer.
Different odd notes embody President Jimmy Carter at a reasonably spectacular top-half displaying (22). Carter is usually seen as one of many worst presidents in our nation’s historical past, rating constantly on the backside of surveys alongside James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.
Buchanan and Johnson on this survey rank above Trump at forty fourth and forty third respectively. Buchanan slow-walked the nation into the Civil Warfare that Lincoln needed to information America by means of. Johnson was the primary president to be impeached.
Barack Obama is ranked because the seventh finest president in American historical past.
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Ranked Trump As The Worst Simply One 12 months Into His Presidency
This survey of finest presidents, damaged down by the ideology of respondents, demonstrates an much more absurd declare in terms of Biden.
Democrats rank him thirteenth based on the American Political Science Affiliation findings. Republicans and conservatives individually rank him thirtieth. It appears far-fetched that conservatives would or may title 15 different Presidents worse than Biden.
It’s additionally essential to notice that these similar “consultants” are going to help within the writing of our future historical past books.
The survey looks like a determined try to make Biden extra palatable to the American folks main into the 2024 presidential election.
Whereas they rank Biden as considerably higher than Trump, the present President has constantly ranked nicely under his predecessor in approval score and is shedding in most 2024 election polls.
In reality, an excellent chunk of Democrats themselves don’t even suppose that Biden ought to keep within the race. But we’re imagined to consider he’s within the high 15 in American historical past.
The identical American Political Science Affiliation survey of consultants in 2018 ranked President Trump because the worst in historical past although he had solely been within the White Home for one full 12 months.
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