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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

1) US presidents don't have as much power over the US as people think they do.2) When presidents can make changes, the impact of those changes is only felt a couple of years after the fact.

Given 1 and 2, it isn't clear to me that overseeing the "rock-bottom worst periods" of US history is an indictment.

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Historian rankings are notoriously bad. Historian rankings of US presidents consistently rank the two presidents who oversaw the two rock-bottom worst periods of US history in the top 3, sometimes as #1 and #2. Why would we trust these guys?

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