It was also brought to my attention that, talking about POTUS on air, Michael Medved “has been assigning the label ‘active/negative personality’” to him.
Each time he’s used the term on air, he has laid out more detail. Medved says other examples of active-negative presidents include LBJ, Nixon, and Jimmy Carter to some extent.
Medved commented January 21 at Townhall.com re the “grim, joyless demeanor” of POTUS:
The one-time apostle of “hope” now gives the impression of self-righteous suffering in office—more and more exemplifying the self-destructive presidential personality defined as “active-negative” by political scientist James David Barber and characterizing stubborn, troubled, arrogant leaders like Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon and Carter.