TITLE: 2026 Community Presidential Tier List - Results!
SUBTITLE: The "official" ranking
AUTHOR: Peter Banks
DATE: 2026-08-04
URL: https://peterbanks.org/essays/2026-community-presidential-tier
SOURCE: https://peteribanks.substack.com/p/2026-community-presidential-tier

The Tier List: 

You can find the data here. Note: Substack rounds vote percentages so they may not always add to exactly 100. Also Trump 2 is still open as I write this so make sure to go and vote. 

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How the scoring works:

The format is simple. Each president gets rated S, A, B, C, or F. To turn letters into numbers, I mapped them onto a five-point scale: S = +3, A = +1, B = 0, C = −1, F = −3. 

Headline result: 

Average that across every vote and each president gets a score. Here’s how they rank, with error bars showing plus or minus one standard deviation.

Over time: 

Intensity Weighted:

If you switch from the average score to the absolute totals — simply summing every vote rather than averaging — you get a ranking weighted by how much people care.

The breakdown, president by president:

Some presidents were more controversial than others:

WAR(6 nearest presidents):

What do you disagree with?
