OPINION:
A group calling itself the American Political Science Association celebrated Presidents Day this year by publishing a list ranking all U.S. presidents in order of greatness — an exercise in which the panel of “experts” clearly embraced slavery.
Two of the group’s top five presidents — George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — owned slaves.
And its very favorite president — Abraham Lincoln — was ambivalent about slavery until he seized the wedge issue in order to win the Civil War and save the Union, under which slavery had thrived since its founding. Throughout his political career, Lincoln favored shipping African Americans back to Africa and to South America, which does not sound terribly inclusive.
The clearly racist American Political Science Association rounded out its top five presidents with a serial philanderer (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Theodore Roosevelt, whose racist statue had to be removed from in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York for being racist.
Barely missing the top five was the man who dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which seems rather hostile if you think about it. They ranked Harry S. Truman as the sixth greatest president of all time. Maybe if he had dropped a bomb on Israel, he might have broken the top five with these people.
Just when you thought there was no humanity left in the world, the racist, womanizing, warmongering American Political Science Association absolved itself by picking Barack Obama as the seventh greatest U.S. president of all time.
Yes, the seventh. (Hold on. It gets better.)
After all, Mr. Obama gave us the Affordable Act, aka “Obamacare,” which solved all our health care problems. Never felt better! As Mr. Obama himself taught us to say, “Thanks, Obama!”
After a random appearance on the list of a president who liked to dictate memos to his secretary while sitting on the toilet (Lyndon Johnson), another serial skirt-chaser (John F. Kennedy) and yet another slaveholder (James Madison), the association’s racist members offered their boldest declaration ever.
Coming in as the 14th greatest president of all time — according to these “experts” — is none other than your current beloved leader, President Biden. All the corruption, wars, crack cocaine, defeats, terrorism, absentee fatherhood, inflation, open borders, crime and brain freezes aside, Mr. Biden has been — well, a memorable president.
In reality, Mr. Biden’s greatest historical contribution has been lifting former President Jimmy Carter off the basement floor of American presidents. Prior to the presidency of Mr. Biden, no sane person believed Mr. Carter would ever be beaten in the category of “worst president of all time.”
That Mr. Biden has managed this extraordinary feat while Mr. Carter is still living makes the accomplishment all the more remarkable.
But that’s not how the racist “experts” at the American Political Science Association see things. They somehow ranked Mr. Biden eight places higher than the Father of Stagflation. They ranked Mr. Carter as the 22nd greatest president of All Time, placing him (and Mr. Biden) in the top half of American presidents.
The Carter-Biden Axis of Awful beat out George W. Bush (32nd), Richard Nixon (35th) and the famous cartoon characters Garfield the cat (30th) and Mallard Fillmore the duck (39th).
In case you didn’t see where this was going, rounding up dead last on the list of greatest presidents of all time from the racist American Political Science Association was Donald Trump.
Forever 45. Or, as he calls himself, “your favorite president.”
At least Mr. Trump will get another shot at moving up the list when voters reelect him president later this year, and he truly Makes America Great Again (again). But don’t count on it. They are, after all, a bunch of racists.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
Correction: A previous version of the column incorrectly spelled Harry S. Truman’s name.
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