I honestly can’t remember the last President who was truely a unifier. You would have to go back quite a ways.
I think it was George Washington and by the end of his second term he was sick of the partisanship and looking forward to the peaceful life of Mount Vernon. Bush really did want to be a unifier, but from the day he walked in he realized he wasn’t in Austin anymore.
Indeed. Possibly to James Monroe and the "era of good feelings" (1820s)
“I honestly can’t remember the last President who was truely a unifier. You would have to go back quite a ways.”
They are not supposed to be...this is supposed to be a two party system...us and the melonheads across the aisle...
Eisenhower?
To achieve unity there must be a meeting of minds. There must be some common ground such as patriotism, founding principles, justice or the like.
With leftist policies controlling the Democrat party there is no chance of unity. The left opposes the very existence of Constitutional government. They consider nationalism a sick perversion. They support the extermination of whole segments of the population and the end of free enterprise.
There will be unity when the perversions of the left are left in the dustbin of history.
Well, GW Bush did everything he could to pander & appease & capitulate to the socialist-democRATs (who hated him even more so for trying), while at the same time, he was scorning & rebuking & dissing the conservative base that put his sorry @ss into two terms in office. No wonder Bush was so despised at the end of 8 years by liberal lefties and conservatives.