those presidential scholar surveys are so wild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Scholar_survey_summary

generally rating reagan in the top 10, uhhh. in terms of dumbass presidents - trump, who did pretty much nothing, gets in the bottom few places while bush jr, who let the oil executive neocons off the leash and levelled entire countries, places significantly better. arch-imperialist jingo teddy roosevelt consistently placing near the top! and all these slave owning crackers dominating the leaderboards. andrew jackson, lol - who cares about indigenous holocausts when he looks stately in a high collar? lincoln too, getting rated #1 when he cared more about the preservation of american institutions than about black lives and was a settler motherfucker who signed the homestead act.

it would be one thing if they just said "yeah we're racist, stupid, greedy, and hypocritical, that's what makes america great" and kept most of these ratings, but then how are you going to rate goofuses like trump or harding or grant so low? gasp, scandal! corruption! like lol what do you think this country stands for exactly