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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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From the actual paper:
I would categorize "dead within a month" generally as a failure, which is where I think a lot of the scholars polled went with it.
Dead within a month isn't a failure though. It isn't anything. That's my point. He didn't do anything, so there's nothing to judge him on.
That’s your subjective opinion on what constitutes failure. Maybe more people actually expect progress, and the status quo is not a good baseline?
Failure to me implies doing something and failing. If I call a plumber and he gets hit by a car on the way over I don't give him a bad review because he didn't change the status quo of my toilet. I don't give him a review at all.
While I agree with your points in this particular comment, doesn't that kind of negate the premise of your title? He shouldn't really be judged at all because he didn't really have time to be bad or good. If judgment can't be passed on his merits, why would he be the metric we compare others to? It's just a roundabout way of saying presidents should be judged whether they made things better or worse, which is kind of self evident.