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Bill Clinton

US President, 1993 to 2001

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Presided over a long economic boom and a balanced budget, signed NAFTA, and was impeached but acquitted.

Bill Clinton sits in the near the center part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-optimist on technology, strongly interventionist on interventionism and leaning progressive on culture.

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Where Bill Clinton sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Bill Clinton

Tony Blair UK Prime Minister, 1997 to 200799%Barack Obama US President, 2009 to 201799%Joe Biden US President, 2021 to 202599%Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State, 2009 to 201398%Matteo Renzi Prime Minister of Italy, 2014 to 201698%Maia Sandu President of Moldova, 2020 to present98%Thomas Friedman American columnist and author98%Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland, 2007 to 2014 and 2023 to present98%

People furthest from Bill Clinton

Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 191013%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199516%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 198016%Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 194020%

Political views closest to Bill Clinton

Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.98%Humanitarian interventionismHolds that outside powers may use force to stop genocide and mass atrocities, even…98%Liberal internationalismBacks a rules-based world order of alliances, trade and institutions to keep the peace.97%European federalismWants Europe's states to pool sovereignty into a shared democratic federation.95%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Bob McNeely, The White House [ 1 ], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.