Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a Democrat president of the United States, who was elected in 1932 and served until 1945. He passed the New Deal programs and pulled together the powerful liberal consensus that would hold for decades.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was a Democrat president of the United States, who was elected in 1945 and served until Eisenhower. He upheld the liberal consensus.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Republican president of the United States, who was elected in 1953 and served two terms. He upheld the liberal consensus.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was a Democrat president of the United States, who was elected in 1961 and served until his assassination in 1963. He upheld the liberal consensus.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat president of the United States, who came into office when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and served until Nixon. He upheld and dramatically expanded the liberal consensus.
Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon was a Republican president of the United States, who came into office in 1969 and served until he resigned due to Watergate. He upheld some parts of the liberal consensus but began chipping away, or empowering others to chip away, at it.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was a Republican president of the United States, who came into office in 1981 and served until Bush. He was a major threat to the liberal consensus.
George H.W. Bush
George H.W. Bush was a Republican president of the United States, who came into office in 1989 and served until Clinton. He largely upheld the liberal consensus but the Republican Party of which he was a part was voraciously chipping away at it.
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was a Democrat president of the United States, who came into office in 1993 and served until George W. Bush. He generally upheld the liberal consensus.
George W. Bush
George W. Bush was a Republican president of the United States, who came into office in 2001 and served until Obama. He was part of an administration that was antagonistic toward the liberal consensus.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was a Democrat president of the United States, who came into office in 2009 and served until Trump. He upheld the liberal consensus and hoped to expand it.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a Republican president of the United States, who came into office in 2009, served one term, lost in 2020, and returned to office in 2025 after winning the election in 2024. He is a major threat to democracy and exhibits all signs of being an authoritarian leader. His preferred America, one of hierarchy based on race and class and gender, is not in line with the Founders' vision nor is it what the majority of the American people want.
Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Zelensky is the president of Ukraine who has been tenaciously fighting against Putin. Trump has tried to manipulate him in order to further Trump's own agenda.
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the authoritarian leader of Russia whom Trump has cozied up to.
Mike Pence
Mike Pence was Trump's vice president in his first term who refused to go along with Trump's plan to overturn the election of 2020.
Joe Biden
Joe Biden was a Democrat president of the United States, who came into office in 2021 and served until 2024, when he gave up his party's nomination in favor of Kamala Harris. He upheld and expanded the liberal consensus.
