Today’s Republican Party desperately needs an Eisenhower

The Hill ^ | 01/22/2024 | JOHN KENNETH WHITE

[rlmorel]

Thanks...I also have issues with Truman as well. He placed party politics well over National Security. He was a party hack. And a scumbag Communist.

And Truman nominated him to head up the IMF, knowing full well he had been exposed by both Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers, as a Communist agent...doing so with a syrupy letter of approval and recommendation.

And he knew.

But he didn’t want to expose the Democrat Party to scandal. So I see Eisenhower as an improvement over Truman.

[DoughtyOne]

I wasn’t quite old enough to pick up on all the nuances
of Barry Goldwater, and how his party hobbled him, or not.

I liked the guy, but I’m not sure how solid he was over
all. He was clearly better than Johnson, no doubt.

In his later years he would surprise me once in a while
the things he seemed to be willing to support.

Couldn’t tell you what they were now.

[linMcHlp]

“Truman nominated him to head up the IMF”

“him” is . . . ?

[rlmorel]

Harry Dexter White. Sorry about that.

[linMcHlp]

No problemo; and thank you.

[Hiddigeigei]

Yes, I was at the Columbia U., School of International and Public Affair and East Asian Institute before and after I was drafted (I had told my draft board I didn’t want any more school deferments). When I came back, I discovered someone had written a book on the topic of my graduate thesis, so I quit at Columbia and worked for about four years abstracting Chinese, Japanese and Korean scientific articles for a government agency. Then used savings and GI Bill to get a PH D. in biology and worked as a research scientist for the rest of my working career. I am an old man now but I guess I’m over educated. Yes, one can be over educated.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "What today's Republican party needs is a Lincoln willing to throw Democrats in prison where they belong.
The way Lincoln used to do it."

Ha!!

I think Democrat Pres. Jefferson Davis threw a relatively equal number of Southern anti-slavery Unionists in jail too, but the key fact is that while the Democrats congress formally declared war against Republicans, on May 6, 1861, they never actually formally surrendered, so technically speaking, Democrats are still at war against us.

That explains a lot, I think, and also suggests that Republicans do need to be a little tougher on our political opponents than we have been since... well... 1865.

Here we see Democrat Pres. Jefferson Davis on the very first LGBT Pride Day in 1865, expressing his support for transgender rights, while escaping the oppressive forces of misogynistic, toxic masculine White Privilege:

[BroJoeK]

No name given : "Donald Trump IS the Eisenhower and also the Reagan of a new era."

Vermont Lt: "That statement is so wrong its actually laughable."

I remember both Eisenhower and Reagan.
Both were relatively moderate domestically, compared to the hopes of serious conservatives of their time.
In that they were similar to Trump today.

Both Eisenhower and Reagan were strong on national defense, as is Trump, and both were committed to America's alliances with NATO and Asian countries.

Both were willing to use military force as needed but were very reluctant to get sucked into quagmires like Vietnam in 1960 or Lebanon in the 1980s.

What Eisenhower, Reagan and Trump share most in common is, they knew how to deal with the Russians and other such bad actors.

Of course, Eisenhower was Kansan & military, Reagan was Hollywood & CA governor and Trump is a NY businessman, so obviously no similarities there.

[Vermont Lt]

And Eisenhower ran the largest logistical and political organization in the history of man when he led the Allies in Europe.

I am not demeaning Trumps business experience, which is impressive. Trump has skills and opportunities that Reagan and Ike did not have.

But in terms of who they were and what they had accomplished at the time of their elections...Trump is a very distant third place.

[Does so]

More on Goldwater, but it’s the Washington Post:

(and yes, it was gays/AIDS in his family).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater072894.htm

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the link .

[BroJoeK]

Vermont Lt: "But in terms of who they were and what they had accomplished at the time of their elections...Trump is a very distant third place."

So, is it then fair to say that Trump is standing on the shoulders of giants?

I'm OK with that.