it's difficult to see bush jr as number 2 on that list since he literally started 2 pointless wars on both a flimsy pretext and a bald faced lie about wmd's.
both he and his democratic flanks are the clearest sign that americans dgaf if non-americans are slaughtered or their human rights are violated; so long as both social and legacy media alike keep them distracted from being aware of either.
These polls are rather meaningless though, the right will never be honest and say "our guy bad". They're authy bootlickers by nature.
So all of their presidents will be artificially inflated. Not that people's opinions on them matters when it comes to "how good a job they did" or how much they improved people's lives, or how "honest" they were etc.
9/11 did a lot of work for Bush Jr.'s approval ratings (Gallup ratings). Same with Giuliani. If it hadn't happened Rudy would have been despised by the public at large a lot sooner.
Trump's ratings are going to fall like a rock as his supporters realize how much his policies are hurting them directly. I saw a post over the weekend from a lady screeching that her package from Temu was being held for a $42 tariff payment but Trump told her tariffs wouldn't affect Americans... Welcome to the "find out" phase, idiot.
Like a good opposition party puppet, they'll rehabilitate Trump just like they did with Bush, even after Bush killed a million innocent people in Iraq.
I just learned that W.E.B. Du Bois pointed this out in 1935 in terms of why poor whites in the Reconstruction-era South preferred to side with the white landowners who exploited them rather than their fellow workers who happened to be black. People would rather feel superior than actually pursue a better life for everyone. It's come to be called The Wages of Whiteness.
...a lady screeching that her package from Temu was being held for a $42 tariff payment but Trump told her tariffs wouldn’t affect Americans...
there's a meme out there with nancy reagan explaining that republican's dgaf about problems until it impacts them and i'm learning that it's true for all americans, republican or not.
obama's followers will continue to like him because his ghoulish policies w immigration, didn't impact them, but it impacted people like me and, you're right, that, that direct hurt has made me not like him.
on the flip side, if trumps policies end up somehow miraculously working like it did for milei or bukele; then trump will likewise become as popular as obama.
I mean, if I was asked to pick my least hated president from among 2 rapists (minimum), limp dick Biden, fucking George Bush, and Obama, I'm picking Obama. If you'd have asked me like 2 months ago, it's Carter hands down, but alas