Diamond Chart
US Presidents on the Diamond Chart
Every president is placed on the chart by their Economic Issues score (x) and Personal Issues score (y), then sorted into a primary type with a finer-grained lean. Filter by sector, pick a president from the list, or click any point on the chart. Placements reflect the Advocates’ historical analysis.
All 46 presidencies plotted. Overlapping scores are fanned out slightly so each point stays clickable.
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46 presidents
Demonstration
One axis hides what two axes reveal
The familiar left–right line is a shadow of the Diamond Chart — the whole chart flattened onto one axis. Drag the slider to lift that shadow back into two dimensions and watch the hidden axis (personal freedom) pull the same 46 presidents apart.
One axis. Left to right — the spectrum everyone knows. But the libertarians and the authoritarians are stacked in the crowded middle, impossible to tell apart.
What you're seeing
The flattened line is each president projected straight onto the chart's horizontal (Progressive↔Conservative) diagonal — the geometric definition of a left–right axis. A point's height on the full chart is the personal-freedom axis, and that height is exactly what the single line discards. So a libertarian (top) and an authoritarian (bottom) sitting at the same left–right spot collapse onto the same point — turn on Spotlight the collapse to watch Jefferson & FDR and Van Buren & Wilson sit together on the line, then fly to opposite poles. The longer a dot's trail, the more the single axis was hiding about it.