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How Should We Judge a President?
See how Presidential Audits uses evidence, consistent standards, and historical context to build a clearer public record of presidential leadership.
Approximately 18 minutes
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Which presidents do you admire — and which ones do you think did the most damage?
Most Americans can name presidents they respect, distrust, praise, or blame. But how did we decide?
Take a quick 60-second presidential judgment check. Then see why Presidential Audits uses a more consistent way to judge presidential leadership.
Choose 2 presidents you admire most.
Do not overthink it. Choose the two presidents who first come to mind as strong, great, or admirable.
Choose 2 presidents you believe did the most damage.
Choose the two presidents who first come to mind as damaging, dangerous, disappointing, or harmful to the country.
Why did you choose them?
Choose the reasons that influenced your choices. You can select more than one.
What this reveals
You already have a presidential judgment.
Most of us judge presidents using a mix of memory, reputation, instinct, education, party loyalty, crisis leadership, one major achievement, one major failure, or what we have lived through.
That is normal. But it is not enough.
Instead of asking only, “Was this president good or bad?” Presidential Audits asks: What did this president achieve? What did they protect? What did they damage? Did they strengthen democratic government? Did they honor the oath of office? Did they misuse power? Did they leave America stronger, weaker, freer, less free, safer, less safe, or more divided?
Now scroll down to see how Presidential Audits scores presidents using the same categories and standards.
Same presidents. Same standards. Evidence before scores. Accountability across time.
Same presidents.
Every president belongs inside the same framework.
Same standards.
The categories do not change with party or popularity.
Evidence first.
The score should emerge from the record.
Public revision.
Better evidence can change the record.
History is not just something we remember. It is one of the tools citizens use to hold power accountable.
Many presidents are largely forgotten. Some are remembered for one crisis, one scandal, one war, one speech, or one popular myth. Presidential Audits exists to build a clearer public record.
Presidents should know they will be remembered — for better or for worse — by evidence, standards, and accountability.
History is watching.
Interactive Comparison
Compare presidents side by side.
Choose up to five presidents or presidential terms and compare their audit scores using the same categories and standards. Nothing is preloaded — start by selecting a president.
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Civic Values Preview
Score presidential decisions.
See how your values would shape presidential scores. You’ll score anonymous presidential-style situations first — without names, parties, years, or historical clues.
Your answers are not counted toward People’s Vote. Sign in to continue with the full scoring version.
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Importance
How important is this decision?
Effect
Was the action harmful, neutral, or beneficial?
Confidence
How confident are you in your answer?
Fictional President Preview
How You Scored President X
The Problem
Most presidential debates collapse into one lazy question.
The weak question:
Was this president good or bad?
The better question:
What did this president achieve, protect, damage, abuse, strengthen, or leave behind?
A president can accomplish great things and still damage the constitutional order.
The Solution
Separate the record before judging the legacy.
Presidential Audits breaks each presidency into categories that can be examined, challenged, revised, and compared.
Achievement
What did the president actually accomplish?
1Democratic Strengthening
Did the presidency strengthen rights, institutions, accountability, and public trust?
2Oath of Office
Did the president faithfully execute the office and treat it as a public trust?
3Corruption
Was there self-dealing, misuse of office, abuse of power, or public-trust misconduct?
4Democratic Damage
Did the presidency harm rights, elections, institutions, norms, or democratic stability?
5The Audit Lens
One score can hide too much.
The audit framework keeps hard truths from canceling each other out. It lets readers see where a presidency succeeded, where it failed, and what kind of failure matters most.
Why This Matters
The goal is not to force agreement.
The goal is to make disagreement smarter — and make presidential accountability harder to dodge.
For Citizens
Compare presidents without reducing the whole record to party loyalty, instinct, nostalgia, or one favorite issue.
For Teachers
Turn presidential history into evidence review, category analysis, argument writing, and structured civic debate.
For Serious Debate
Disagreement becomes useful when critics identify the category, present evidence, and explain the adjustment.
Disagree with a score?
Good. Pick the category. Show the evidence. Explain the adjustment.
Current Presidents
Current-president material is provisional, but it still matters now.
Presidential Audits does not pretend an active presidency can be judged with the same finality as one whose records, consequences, legal disputes, and transfer-of-power conduct are complete. But waiting for history does not mean ignoring the present.
The Living Record tracks current actions, emerging evidence, court developments, executive decisions, public-trust concerns, democratic-strengthening actions, and democratic-damage risks while they are still unfolding.
Why Volume 8 Exists
The goal is to compare current presidential conduct against the same standards used for past presidents — while clearly marking the evidence as provisional until time, records, and consequences make firmer judgment possible.
What the Site Includes
A public civic record built for reading, checking, comparing, and challenging.
The Simple Promise
Same categories.
Same standards.
Evidence before scores. Revision when better evidence appears. No pressure, payment, threat, favor, or partisan preference can move a score.
Presidential Audits exists to improve the conversation, strengthen accountability, and help citizens understand how presidential actions will be remembered.