His behaviour sure doesn’t help.

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    17 days ago

    Yeah, that’s why historians examine things through hindsight and evidence not flash polls on CNN designed to get headlines.

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          17 days ago

          I’m pretty sure historians 30 years from now are still going to learn how to differentiate source quality.

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            17 days ago

            Yes, and at that point, both sources will be meaningless in the context of who the most hated president is.

            They will also be meaningless because the same polls were not carried out during previous presidencies, so there is nothing to compare them to, nor was there the same information ecosystem.

            At present he won’t go down as the most hated President of all time in the long run, and if Trump goes down as the most hated president, during his time, it will only be because social media didn’t exist during Andrew Jackson’s time.