The results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey were released, and the survey found that President Joe Biden was the 14th-best president of all time. Biden received such a high mark despite the many issues plaguing his presidency. These include higher gas prices, higher violent crime rates, higher inflation, and a border crisis that has spiraled out of control. Furthermore, recent polls have shown that Biden’s approval rating is at record lows, with most of the country not satisfied with him.
But that doesn’t seem to matter to the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project. It appears this project operates on some evaluation system that is not grounded in reality.
“The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey was conducted online via Qualtrics from November 15 to December 31, 2023,” its website says. “Respondents included current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which is the foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics, as well as scholars who had recently published peer-reviewed academic research in key related scholarly journals or academic presses.”
“The primary purpose of this survey was to create a ranking of presidential greatness that covered all presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden,” the website explained. “To do this, we asked respondents to rate each president on a scale of 0-100 for their overall greatness, with 0=failure, 50=average, and 100=great. We then averaged the ratings for each president and ranked them from highest average to lowest.”
But these rankings are little more than fanciful myths the academic aristocracy calculated with no explanation of how or why the presidents were ranked. All are based on opinions, not facts. And, given the revelations about academia over the last year, it’s evident that the views of the people making these opinions are highly questionable, if not outright delusional.
For example, this year, Barack Obama was ranked as the seventh greatest president of all time; in 2023, he was ranked 16th. What exactly has Obama done to increase nine spots in this ranking by “experts”? The answer is nothing. It’s just a fictitious ranking by the intelligentsia and academic aristocracy that isn’t predicated on anything other than agenda-driven analysis.
There would be no reason to have Biden ranked as high. For any “expert” to rank Biden as high is indicative of a flawed and corrupt process that should not be considered serious in any way. The crisis at the border alone, with a record number of illegal immigrants entering the country, should disqualify him from being ranked in the top 14, let alone the top 44.
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However, none of that matters to the “experts.” They are people who clearly live in a reality that differs from most of the country. It’s indicative of the arrogance that plagues much of this country’s intelligentsia elitism and the academic aristocracy. Political allegiances aside, no honest and objective historian, political scientist, or anyone with a pulse could legitimately give Biden such a high ranking — unless it was April Fools’ Day, and we are still quite a few weeks away.
No one should believe Biden is the nation’s 14th-greatest president. And no one should believe anything these “experts” say.