Barack Obama vs Donald Trump

They are 7.3 apart on the PoliMap compass, a 74% match with each other on this chart.

AuthoritarianLibertarianLeftRightObamaTrump
Barack Obama

Liberal US president

Economic -3.8 · Social -1.2

Cell: Social Liberalism

Donald Trump

Right-populist US president

Economic +2.5 · Social +2.5

Cell: Conservatism

Barack Obama (Liberal 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 7.3 is the straight-line distance between the two coordinates, not a moral score.

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