Posted on 06/17/2020 12:08:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
Republicans see President Trump as the fourth “greatest” president ever, on par with Ronald Reagan and just behind Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, according to a new survey.
What’s more, Trump ranks seventh with all adults polled in the latest Yahoo/YouGov survey, ahead of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Lincoln, who ended the Civil War and freed slaves, is considered the greatest of all presidents. Some 48% said he was great, and another 27% called him “near great.”
Washington, the first president and considered the father of America, was second. Some 40% called him great, and another 25% called him near great.
Trump came in seventh overall, with 18% calling him great and 12% near great.
Among Republicans, 47% said Trump is great, and 25% said he is near great. Just 3% of Democrats said Trump is great.
The survey analysis said Republicans consider Trump better than Reagan, but the results showed Reagan had the edge: 49% calling him great and 24% calling him near great. The survey said, however, "Republicans are much more likely (47%) than Americans overall to describe Trump as great. Among his own party, he is only beaten by Washington (55%) and Lincoln (54%)."
The numbers show the depth of support among his base and parallel other polls showing the president with an approval rating over 90% among Republicans.
As with many political polls, the GOP-Democrat division was vast.
One example was the question that the survey asked on whether Trump is racist. With Democrats, 83% said yes. Among Republicans, 72% said no.
JFK should not be rated highly.
Nobody with any understanding of history would rank Jimmy Carter 9th. It’s a publicity contest where people rank the only presidents that they can think of.
Obama ahead of Reagan???
The American People are insane, period.
The way to read this is to realize that in the age of Trump, there is no middle ground. So the 100-83=17% of Dems who don’t think Trump is racist are potential or committed supporters of Trump. This would not make sense for any other President, but it does for Trump.
These kinds of surveys are bunk. Outside of Washington and Lincoln, there is no other president before 1932? It’s just people ranking presidents they have heard of, which for a lot of people doesn’t extend much farther back than their own lifetimes.
The American People are insane, period.
They most likely polled millenials and public school type people. Who were born after Reagan died.
Better than Reagan. Trump fights much harder than Reagan ever did.
Neither should Lincoln. Both of them ought to be near the bottom.
This.
Lincoln? Lol.
My guess is most of the people they polled could not name 5 U.S. Presidents or even find 5 sates on a map. Face, todays publicly educated person on the street is an idiot.
Obama should be last in line below Nixon.
I think we all know why Obama was rated so highly but who with a straight face called Carter “great”?
I agree about JFK. He remains one of the greatest “what-ifs” in US history.
He botched the Bay of Pigs invasion, which led to the Cuban missile crisis.
On the other hand, he pushed for lower taxes and an aggressive space program.
Despite his womanizing and other personal failings, he looks pretty good compared to today’s liberals.
If he hadn’t been killed, we can only speculate that we would still have a Democratic Party instead of RATs. His assassination was a calamity for the entire nation.
The only presidents that have respected state sovereignty imo are Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, Andrew Jackson, since he evidently understood that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate banks, and PDJT, Trump having no choice but to surround himself with post-FDR era, institutionally indoctrinated legal advisors.
Otherwise, it is impossible to “reverse engineer” today’s unconstitutionally big federal government (unconstitutional Social Security, Federal Reserve, NASA, welfare, the national highway system, follow the federal dollars, etc.) to its enumerated, constitutionally limited powers imo.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"It’s politically correct, under the Democratic Party and its tyrant judges, to use your voting power to make your fellow citizens involuntary servants." —me
"The Democratic elite define a "pro-choice" democracy as being able to vote for your preferred master." —me
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Trump will be the greatest President of my lifetime (I’m near 60 and my first vote was for Ronaldus Magnus). I’ve been hoping since January of 1989 for an RR on steroids. I got my wish.
RR will be second to Trump only for the fact of his “choice” of VP. I know that was GOPe chicanery.
I’m not Pence fan. I see a re-do of RR’s mistake.
I hope I am wrong. Cotton? Pompeo? DeSantis? Please?
Based on failure would say better than Reagan.
I’ve been a Pence fan for quite a while. I think he’s a good, stable, moral man. Would he be a perfect president? No. Would he be as exciting and different as President Trump? No, but I think he’d make this list and I think we would be lucky to have him as our president in 2024 and 2028. Certainly better than any Democrat.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Emphasis MINE...................
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