vcczar Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 This is a ranks presidencies by who had the most to least difficult presidency. That is, the events they were dealt or inherited during their times. It does not rank their ability to handle those events. The top of the list allowed the possibility for greatness that the bottom of the list does not.: Lincoln FDR Buchanan Hoover Pierce Andrew Johnson Fillmore Taylor Washington Madison GW Bush Grant LBJ Nixon Truman JFK Trump Carter Ford J Adams Jefferson Jackson Eisenhower B Harrison Obama Van Buren Polk Wilson Biden *So far* GHW Bush Th Roosevelt Reagan McKinley Cleveland Clinton Garfield Tyler Taft Arthur Hayes WH Harrison Coolidge Harding Monroe JQ Adams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Patine said: I firmly believe, in the specific cases of Obama and Trump, a notable part of what made their Presidencies difficult was the toxic levels American media had reached by that point. Though, a qualifier must be made for Trump. I've said this a couple of times on Anthony's thread, but I stand by it. Even though Trump thoroughly excoriated, insulted, railed against, ranted at, and threatened to sue and pass laws against American news media, and called it, "Fake News," and an, "Enemy of the State," I firmly do not believe he would have actually have been elected in 2016 in the first if it were not for the free and constant - if negative - coverage the U.S. media gave him. And, even though the U.S. media demonized, villainized, and thoroughly sensationalized (in a negative way) Trump, calling him a Fascist, saying he was the worst candidate to ever run for office in the U.S., and he was this great inhuman monster that was going to turn the nation into an authoritarian "Christian," White ethno-state tyranny with pogroms of minorities, they got huge amounts of increase in ratings, clicks, advertising funds, and all the other nitty gritty ways they measure success. Despite the incendiary and vitriolic rhetoric toward each other, Trump and the U.S. media were among the greatest allies and enablers each other could have at the time... Trump's placement is as high as it is almost exclusively because of Covid. His presidency would have been a cakewalk for any president otherwise. He inherited a rising economy. Most of the difficulties he had was brought on by his own person, it seems. Obama's presidency was relatively easy outside of the Great Recession. That's the primary reason for his placement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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