A survey of historians and presidential experts ranks President Biden in 14th place all-time, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. Former President Donald Trump came in last.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    If Reagan is in the top half, how am I supposed to take the list seriously? Or are you telling me ~28 presidents were actually worse?

    • Pronell@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Reagan was loved by the country at the time and was extremely effective at implementing his agenda.

      All of it is monstrous to me as well, but to compare him to Trump, who didn’t even try to implement much of an agenda and literally had ZERO party platform for his second term… it makes a little more sense in that context.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    “Trump’s overall rating was 10.92, easily the worst showing, while Biden’s 62.66 had him tied with John Adams. Some of Biden’s appeal could be due to the person he followed in the Oval Office.”

    Biden’s biggest achievements have been fixing the cluster-fuck Trump left him (cough - Covid - cough). If Trump hadn’t come before him, Biden would be seen largely as a placeholder President. Someone keeping the seat warm until the next Democrat can come in.

    • NightGaunts@kbin.socialOP
      5·
      9 months ago

      Also worth crediting him on the infrastructure deal. This piece of legislation had a lot of needed stuff in it.
      For instance
      Money to replace lead service pipes
      Money for bridges, etc
      A HUGE sorely needed investment in public transportation including passenger rail
      Various green initiatives (ev charger network, solar and power efficiency incentives)
      Etc.

      It has been a really long time since the federal government has delivered anything (besides tax cuts that lean towards the wealthy) so it’s a big deal that this was pushed through.