And as it turned out, Eisenhower was a disaster for the GOP after 1952, ending with the calamitous 1958 elections and the Kennedy “victory” in 1960. It would’ve been better had the ticket of Taft-MacArthur had won in 1952 (Taft would’ve died regardless in the Summer of ‘53, and a President MacArthur would’ve been more proactive in dealing with the Communist menace both abroad and domestically).
Just so. Perhaps the worst thing Eisenhower did was to undermine and destroy Senator McCarthy, with the aid of the liberal establishment and TV news people. If Eisenhower had not weighed in, things might have gone quite differently.