Source: Persuasion
by Richard Aldous
“In John Updike’s 1992 novel Memories of the Ford Administration, the historian non-hero of the story just can’t finish writing his biography of James Buchanan because the fifteenth president of the United States is so overshadowed by the giant figure who comes after him — Abraham Lincoln. We know how he feels. For all the ink that has been expended on political events of the last year, it is surely incontrovertible that Donald Trump is the single most consequential political figure since Ronald Reagan, and arguably Franklin Roosevelt. … Meanwhile, Joe Biden will languish with the Benjamin Harrisons, Milard Fillmores and James Buchanans in the annals of presidential duds — otherwise known as the trash heap of history.” (01/15/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/farewell-to-a-mediocre-president