Presidents Day is tomorrow, Monday, February 16, a good time, after a full year of the second Presidency of Donald Trump, and one retirement year of Joe Biden, to reassess rankings of Presidents, particularly recent Chief Executives.
C Span is likely in process of reassessing its rankings of Presidents, last done in 2021, as Joe Biden became President, and Donald Trump became, at the time, a former President who had been defeated for reelection, but mounted an illegal, unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the results of the Presidential Election of 2020 through the US Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021.
There can be disagreement over many Presidents and their rankings, but with the reality that in recent years, the following Presidents have seen their stock rise in assessments of scholars, in chronological order:
Ulysses S. Grant
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
At the same time, the following Presidents have seen their stock fall lower in assessments of scholars, in chronological order:
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson
Ronald Reagan
In the view of this scholar, author, and blogger, the thought is that the following recent Presidents will be likely to benefit the most in the future in rise in rankings from where they are presently, in chronological order:
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
But the debate over Presidential performance will continue, certainly, to be heatedly debated for the long term future.