>>>> 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/
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>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.

I don't understand where you're going here or what point you're trying to make. Are you suggesting that there hasn't been a successful presidency in this country since FDR or what? We can look back on all former presidents and make such a determination - and we can evaluate the results of their actions better as more time passes - but to think there has actually been no successful presidency since 1945 is absurd at best.