No sooner had I finished my ranking of the UK Prime Ministers (which was only in 2022, but three Prime Ministers ago) than people were suggesting I do the same for the US Presidents. Had they no idea of the research time, or the worry over who should rank higher of Millard Fillmore and John Tyler, or the hours spent looking for a positive of the Buchanan administration. In vain, I might add. List making is a very serious agenda in my book, and after two years, here is a ranking that will probably change tomorrow. I was taken aback by how many US Presidents I thought were a bit awful. As with the Prime Ministers, I have made a list of the achievements under their administration (the buck does stop here after all), and added and deducted points for my opinion on those policies. So, the Civil Rights Act would gain a lot of positive points (+150) whereas attempting genocide would score a vast number of penalty points. All of these points were added together to produce a rough list, before personal bias came in. Obviously, there’s a lot of personal bias. However, I was taken aback by the points differentials. In the UK version, there was 700 points separating top from bottom. Here? Over 2000. It may have been even more if not for the racism penalty clause, which kicks in with every different policy, and badly hurt a few Presidents, but to be fair, that’s their own damn fault.
