They called Reagan an ‘amiable dunce.’ Now it’s Trump’s turn

approval averaged 53%, far lower among Democrats. Yet by 2023, 69% of Americans called him a good or great president, second only to John F. Kennedy, and he keeps climbing the C-SPAN historians’ rankings. The man once caricatured as a deaf, reckless warmonger is now, by broad agreement, a consequential president.

Note what is being compared. Reagan’s continue reading …