In the latest controversial assessment of presidential legacies, the 2024 edition of the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has placed current White House resident Joe Biden at the 14th position, outranking notables such as Woodrow Wilson (D) and Ronald Reagan (R). Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has been situated at the very end of the list, occupying the 45th spot.
The survey, which gathered insights from 154 “historians and presidential experts” out of 525 invitations, has drawn criticism for its alleged ideological bias, particularly from conservative circles.
Critics argue that the rankings reflect a distorted historical perspective shaped by contemporary political leanings rather than objective analysis.
Co-directors of the Presidential Greatness Project, University of Houston’s Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn of Coastal Carolina University, defend the survey’s methodology, which they initiated in 2015.
The rankings are based on nearly 200 responses from scholars across various disciplines with expertise in presidential politics.
The survey results indicate a stark ideological divide among the experts. Self-identified conservative scholars rated Biden at No. 30, while liberals placed him at 13th and moderates at 20th. All three groups concurred, however, on Trump’s position, ranking him in the bottom five.
While the survey continues to honor Abraham Lincoln (R) as the nation’s quintessential leader, it has now positioned Franklin Delano Roosevelt (R) above George Washington (I) as the second-greatest president.
Unbelievably, the “racist and anti-semitic” Franklin Roosevelt is shockingly poised to be the next face on Mt. Rushmore, followed by “Barack Obama came in second (11%), followed by a three-way tie between Dwight Eisenhower, James Madison, and John F. Kennedy (4% each), according to the survey.
Franklin Roosevelt faced significant controversies during his presidency, including his attempts to pack the Supreme Court, failures to support anti-lynching legislation, refusing Jewish refugees during the rise of Nazi Germany, seeking unprecedented third and fourth terms in office, and the internment of innocent Japanese Americans during World War II.
It also says the racist/anti Jew FDR (Democrat) is #2? FDR who:
-Invited white 1936 Olympic athletes to visit the White House, but snubbed the great Jesse Owens (because he was black)
-Put innocent Japanese citizens in internment camps
-Refused Jewish refugees during holocaust— Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) February 20, 2024
1. Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
3. George Washington (No party affiliation)
4. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
5. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
6. Harry S. Truman (Democrat)
7. Barack Obama (Democrat)
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
9. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)
10. John F. Kennedy (Democrat)
11. James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
12. Bill Clinton (Democrat)
13. John Adams (Federalist)
14. Joe Biden (Democrat)
15. Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)
16. Ronald Reagan (Republican)
17. Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
18. James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
19. George H.W. Bush (Republican)
20. John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican)
21. Andrew Jackson (Democrat)
22. Jimmy Carter (Democrat)
23. William Howard Taft (Republican)
24. William McKinley (Republican)
25. James K. Polk (Democrat)
26. Grover Cleveland (Democrat)
27. Gerald Ford (Republican)
28. Martin Van Buren (Democrat)
29. Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
30. James A. Garfield (Republican)
31. Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
32. George W. Bush (Republican)
33. Chester A. Arthur (Republican)
34. Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
35. Richard Nixon (Republican)
36. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
37. John Tyler (Whig)
38. Zachary Taylor (Whig)
39. Millard Fillmore (Whig)
40. Warren G. Harding (Republican)
41. William Henry Harrison (Whig)
42. Franklin Pierce (Democrat)
43. Andrew Johnson (Democrat)
44. James Buchanan (Democrat)
45. Donald Trump (Republican)
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Below is the full report of the survey:
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