Of course we're not objective. How do you think opinions work?
Saying that Reagan was a horrible president is like calling Trump an amazing president. If you want to say that’s simply an opinion and not objectively wrong, then go ahead.
Political opinions can't be "objectively" anything. Ranking Presidents is an opinion no matter how you slice it. I believe Reagan and Trump were both very bad Presidents (although Trump has certainly proved himself to be worse) and my ratings would reflect that.
I think the question then becomes: why is your opinion so out of line with effectively all political scientists, including Democrats? Why do you believe you know better than them?
Usually most rankings by political scientists and historians of recent Presidents judge them without prejudice to their accomplishments, and rather just the amount of accomplishment they had or effect on the country
Yeah that’s... not true. George W Bush definitely had a larger on the county than his father, but one of them is ranked higher than the other.
Well Bush again, obviously egregious and horrible. The full scope of the disasters of Reaganism are less subtle than Bush's, who left office with the economy obviously on fire.
Eh, those were still great times of massive prosperity compared to what we're dealing with now.
In 2008, everyone I knew was doing fine (at least economically). Myself and my whole family has been devasted by this 2020-2021 great depression though.
The long term impacts of 2008 were worse , and unemployment currently is at Jan 2014 levels .
Heck on Election Day 49% of Americans thought the economy was good while that number was 36% in 2016
Yeah i have a hard time believing that. Empirically it just doesn't make sense.
Well with polling we all know what a joke that is. You can just make it say what you want it to say.
And with the unemployment rate, i think the difference is in 2008 people were still trying to find work. In 2020 many simply aren't bothering as there's no work out there. And you're not counted as unemployed if you're not actively looking for work.
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