Richard Nixon vs Donald Trump

They are 2.9 apart on the PoliMap compass, a 90% match with each other on this chart.

AuthoritarianLibertarianLeftRightNixonTrump
Richard Nixon

Centre-right US president

Economic +0.2 · Social +4.2

Cell: Authoritarian Democratism

Donald Trump

Right-populist US president

Economic +2.5 · Social +2.5

Cell: Conservatism

Richard Nixon (Centre-right US president) and Donald Trump (Right-populist US president) are useful to compare because their public records pull toward different mixes of markets and authority. The gap of 2.9 is the straight-line distance between the two coordinates, not a moral score.

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