>>> At this stage I don't see much of a path to what you would call a successful presidency.
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>>What president since FDR would you call successful?
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>Clinton, Obama, Regan, Kennedy, etc. all seem to rank pretty high on the lists when you google for such info - and of course Johnson did accomplish quite a bit despite his problems with the Vietnam war. These guys didn't do this by spreading hate and appointing wildly unqualified people to important positions.
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>www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/16/new-ranking-of-u-s-presidents-puts-lincoln-1-obama-18-kennedy-judged-most-over-rated/

I didn't ask what the polls of the moment showed.
If we had followed the polls of the moment, Thomas Dewey would have clobbered Harry Truman and Hillary Clinton would have devastated Donald Trump.
I asked what president since FDR you'd call successful.