By your line of reasoning Ronald Reagan was a Republican Partisan who achieved nothing.
I see him as committed conservative idealogue who used the vehicle of party politics to become the head of a nation and among other achievements defeated communism in Eastern Europe.
Close. As a domestic, Republican partisan, Reagan accomplished little positive change. His most prominent domestic legacy was illegal immigration. As an ideologue on the international stage, however, Reagan accomplished profound, political change.
The two great US political leaders within the 20th century, Reagan and Roosevelt, were marked as charismatic ideologues, not partisans. Both would have achieved their individual greatness regardless of party registration.