nudityandnerdery:

nerdymouse:

bethanyactually:

*googles ‘how to nominate reporter for Peabody Award’* x

Wait….. who is coming behind Trump?

The poll in question:

Siena’s 6th Presidential Expert Poll 1982 - 2018 – Siena College Research Institute

Siena College Research Institute (SCRI) is the preeminent academically situated polling institute in New York State.

scri.siena.edu

Trump is only ahead of Andrew Johnson- took office after Lincoln was shot, did a terrible job on Reconstruction, opposed the 14th Amendment, was impeached, and only avoided being removed from office by one vote in the Senate- and James Buchanan- who couldn’t do anything to stop the divide that was leading to the Civil, he exacerbated it by endorsing the Supreme Court’s appalling ruling on Dred Scott and supporting letting Kansas enter the US as a slave-holding state, and then he refused to respond militarily to the secession of several southern states before he left office.

Notably, this is a survey of presidential scholars, not just random people. They’re pretty brutal on the current administration, like 92% of them say he’s moving the wrong direction on human rights and the strength of our democracy.