Rate Each of the US Presidents (who you have studied)

[JasonBlack]

my list is as follows. I've tried to be reasonable

S: Washington
A: Jefferson, Lincoln
A-: Eisenhower, Bush Sr
B+: Clinton, Adams, TR, Grover Cleveland, JFK, Grant
B-: Trump, Reagan
C+: Carter, Nixon, Jackson, Hoover
C-: FDR, LBJ, Bush Jr, Obama
D+: Harding
D-: Biden
F: Wilson, Andrew Johnson

notes:
- Washington is untouchable in virtually any capacity
- Bush and Obama are rated low for the same reasons
- Eisenhower would be a solid A if it weren't for those utterly insane confiscatory taxes
- FDR gets an A or S for leadership and a solid F for virtually all his policies, so it was hard to place him
- half of Jackson's policies were financially genius, the other hand were downright evil
- Carter's cabinet was incompetent and idealistic, but as a person....I like the guy
- frankly, Watergate wasn't a big deal. taking off the gold standard was. he did a decent chunk for the environment though
- LBJ deserves credit for backing Civil Rights reform at the expense of half his party turning on him, but his policies were irresponsible, as was his unwillingness to end the war in Vietnam
- JFK was kinda meh, expect for going against the Fed which was fucking heroic.
- yes, Biden really is that bad. I tried not to be too biased, but...sorry, it's just true