Harding I can see making that list but Hoover? Sure, he had some undeniable streaks of RINO in him, but he did believe that the government shouldn't hamper business. I think that if FDR hadn't been elected, the economic recovery would have happened in due time.
The all time worst? Without a doubt that's Franklin Diablo Roosevelt, a Socialist to the nth degree. So much of what's wrong with America today is directly attributable to this utterly evil, mendacious man. The line from FDR to BHO is absolutely clear. The stench of sulfur permeates both of these truly wicked men.
My candidate for the all-time best president was also a favorite of Ronald Reagan: Calvin Coolidge. His small government, pro-business stance is evident in this classic speech from Coolidge.
“but he did believe that the government shouldn’t hamper business”
Really? Where’s the evidence for that? He was the first chief executive to treat economic downturn as a national emergency akin to war. FDR followed his playbook.
“The all time worst? Without a doubt that’s Franklin Diablo Roosevelt”
Yes, I admit, I fell into the trap of judging presidents by a sort of Might Makes Right standard. FDR was practically successful, as he was able to placate the public, win frequent reelection, reorient not only his own party but the entire federal government for more than 40 years toward his ideology, and trick the history books into telling it his way. The reason I list Hoover, then, and not FDR, is that people saw through Hoover. He was never so powerful, and failed at the ballot box and in the history books.
This is not the best way to judge politicians, in my opinion. For sometimes their success is the country/world/freedom’s loss. Judged by the criteria of freedom, limited government, constitutionality, etc., he was an abysmal failure. Similar things can be said about the apparent success of Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Wilson.
“My candidate for the all-time best president was also a favorite of Ronald Reagan: Calvin Coolidge. His small government, pro-business stance is evident in this classic speech from Coolidge.”
I’m right there with you. What history did to that man, as well as his Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, is unforgivable.
I also highly recommend the all but forgotten Grover Cleveland.
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