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I’ve heard some historians rate Harry Truman fairly high, which also contrasts with how he was viewed at the time.

The passage of time and perspective, can change how people and events are viewed down the road.

Obama is beloved by today’s liberals but will he be considered an historic president decades from now?

>I’ve heard some historians rate Harry Truman fairly high, which also contrasts with how he was viewed at the time.

Truman’s loved by Marxists historians for helping spread comunism and for his non-elite ways. An objective look at his presidency show he was a Comunist who gave China to the reds, tried to give half of Japan to Russia, and intentionally lost the Korean war.

It's fitting you bring up Truman because Trump's campaign was similar to Truman's campaign in 1948. Truman was considered a joke among the "intellectual crowd", a backwards unsophisticated hick, and given no chance to win. On the other hand, Thomas Dewey was considered the "establishment favorite", a media darling, and was practically coronated ahead of the election.

Truman took his campaign to the people, on the "whistle-stop" tour. His stump speeches were Trump-like in that they excoriated the "do-nothing" establishment and the biased media who were already in Dewey's pocket. He started drawing huge crowds and won over fly-over country before it was even called that. As a result, Truman confounded the pollsters and pulled off the biggest presidential upset victory up to that time - an upset the likes of what we would not see again for another 68 years.