Chase’s Reviews > How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump > Status Update

"by this analysis, it's clearly quite unlikely that donald trump will win a second term"
well... i'm glad we're at least in agreement about what his analysis is worth

and he adds two more comments about lyndon's godforsaken johnson. STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS MAN'S GENITALS,, ITS WEIRD. TALK ABOUT HIS WAR CRIMES

"i will not be reviewing 21st century presidents because they're too recent to give unbiased analysis" *proceeds to spend more time talking about trump's first term than he did talking about the entire cold war*... yeah okay buddy
and now now he tops it off by claiming Eisenhower only has a legacy as a war hero... does this guy have memory loss? he wrote entire chapter to Eisenhower's presidential accomplishments...

he said he was skipping both bushes and obama to "avoid bias", but everything from carter onward was EXTREMELY skewed

the author did fairly well giving each historical president a faithful portrayal, until he got to jimmy carter and the camp david accords, at which point his personal political inclinations increasingly begin to color his analysis of fact

TIL that FDR would've given us universal basic income if he'd lived until the end of WW2. once again, nazis ruin everything

nice

could've gone my whole i've without knowing the size of Lyndon's johnson, but thanks to Mr. Dallek here, i must now live out my days bearing the cursed burden of this knowledge.
i am noting this to remember that i intend to remove a star from my rating as penalty for informing me of this.

also JFK being lionized in presidential history is, in my view, largely a result of his PR more than his actions. he wrote more of his own story than the average president, same with reagan, but where reagan's achievements are just disproportionately weighted, JFK's are often misattributed instead.