I & I Editorial BoardEarlier this week a couple of propagandists, also identified as scholars, released a ranking of U.S. presidents. It has about as much credibility as the Clinton Russia hoax. But it does reinforce the gaslighting narrative that so many of our institutions are engaged in.
The list, part of a Presidential Greatness Project compiled by a pair of university professors, ranks Joe Biden as the 14th best president. Ever. We’re talking the Joe Biden who is in office today. There has been no other president from an earlier era named Joe Biden to be confused with.
The academic malpractice doesn’t end there. The results of the survey place Donald Trump last, exactly where he was ranked in 2018, the last time the group published is presidential list.
No surprise, though. The rankings are based on “knowledgeable assessments” of 154 “scholars” – we again use quotation marks because these creatures of the academy have exposed themselves as being more activists and than impartial academics – who are current and recent members of the American Political Science Association.
Members of this benign-sounding professional group dressed up their bias as academic opinion. Clearly these political scientists are more engaged in politics than science. But it should be expected. Roughly 90% of academic political scientists operate from a leftist world view.
More specifically, the American Political Science Association has adopted a woke agenda. Its own site insists that “advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the profession is a key priority of the association and the APSA Strategic Plan.” The group also offers “resources on systemic racism” and “social justice.”
It’s an organization that has produced “shocking examples of open assault on the American founding and the Declaration of Independence in particular,” says Ken Masugi, a Claremont Institute senior fellow and Johns Hopkins University adjunct professor.
“It is not an exaggeration to say that the ultimate purpose of the APSA is to marginalize and destroy political philosophy, including the political philosophy of the founders, as a legitimate part of political science.”
One of its earliest presidents felt that civilized politics “must reject natural rights,” Masugi adds, “such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
In other words, it’s hardly distinguishable from the Democratic Party, resolutely defending Biden while showering blind hatred on Trump.
But the group could have tried to be objective. Instead, it chose outright childish pettiness, burying Trump, a decision that has no more basis in reality than Biden’s 14th spot.
The one-term Trump, for instance, was a successful tax-cutter and deregulator, dropped Obamacare’s meddlesome individual mandate, forged peace in the Middle East, pushed for U.S. energy independence and walked away from the foolish Paris climate accord. We noted this in an editorial we wrote in a 2021 editorial that was censored by Google.
Trump also established the Space Force (Biden tried to establish a ministry of truth), and tried to stem the flow of illegal immigrants (which Biden energized).
Meanwhile, Biden botched the Afghanistan withdrawal; bungled foreign policy, particularly in regard to Iran; and is now “playing with fire in the Middle East and risking World War III.” On his watch, inflation has become so painful that it takes a larger portion of our incomes to provide food than at any time in the last three decades.
The shaky economy has not grown since he took office as much as it has righted itself after policymakers panicked over COVID and shut it down. (Trump had three years of growth before the Panic of 2020.) Biden’s record on jobs is in reality not the rosy picture his administration and cheerleading media has tried to make it out to be, and the labor participation rate in the Bidenomics era has yet to recover to its pre-pandemic trend.
This is the work of the 14th best president in our country’s history?
We’re not taken aback, though, by the soft spot for the gibbering, mediocre-brained Biden. After all, the list ranks Franklin Roosevelt, the New Dealer who made the Great Depression worse, as the second best president. Only a bubble-dwelling partisan would do that.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Propaganda like this and the renaissance of the Russia Russia Russia ! hoax will make 2024 historic for the level of corruption and chicanery coming from the Left.
This opinion probably won’t make much of a big splash, but ever since the debacle of COVID, “medical experts”, the vax, Russian Collusion, and Main Stream Media perfidy and bias, I will never trust so-called authorities again.
Perhaps, I will trust the exception-but this will only be if: He/She admits and apologizes for the treachery, the innacuracies, the political shenanigans and destruction that past authorities have caused.
As I said, I might then trust that authority. But first I’d have to think more than twice-or even thrice.
This isn’t new. This is the same bullshit pulled by Schlesinger and the rest of the eggheads 60 years ago. Anyone who shot the government full of steroids is good, anyone who tried to place limits on it was bad. Predictable and pathetic.
Instead of calling them “leftists” or “progressives”(they are anything but progressive); call them what they are: totalitarians, communists, marxists, socialists(if you are feeling charitable), PSEUDOINTELLECTUALS, and last but not least, a–holes because they feel they have to control every LAW ABIDING CITIZEN with their own money, ie. taxes.
The top two Presidents are Lincoln and Washington. Period.