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The American Political Science Association (APSA) [apsanet.org] is the first [wikipedia.org] to rethink its rankings of US Presidents.

Mother Jones reports [motherjones.com]

Trump Is Officially the Worst President Ever

Who is the worst president? The lowest ranked presidents are normally Franklin Pierce (helped cause the Civil War) James Buchanan (helped cause the Civil War), William Henry Harrison (refused to wear a coat during his inauguration, died), and Andrew Johnson (screwed up the outcome of the Civil War, impeached).

Or so it used to be!

Professors Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn reached out [nytimes.com] [paywall [soylentnews.org]][archive [archive.org]], as they did in 2014, to hundreds of political scientists to check in on this whole historical ranking of presidents thing and though the upper tier is unchanged the population of the lowest rung is a little bit bigger.

Donald Trump comes in dead last in his debut ranking[1]. Among Democratic scholars, he's far and away last. Among independent scholars, he's second to last. Even among Republican scholars, he's bottom five. (Read Kevin Drum on where he should rank [motherjones.com].)

[1] Dup'd link in TFA.

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