Coolidge is vastly underrated. Hard to believe he was from MA.
MA used to be a conservative Republican state, before the dark times, before Camelot. They were one of the few states that maintained a GOP legislature clear through the depression.
Anyway look at the 20th Century Presidents. Who was a credible conservative? Which of the Republicans were actually committed to decent constitutional governance?
Coolidge, Reagan. Harding, Taft perhaps (I’m not that well versed on his term). So yes Harding if only by process of elimination is one of the best Presidents of the 20th Century and definitely better than all but 2 that followed him. He didn’t do much to leave us worse off.
The worst list in my opinion belongs to the 20th Century democrats. Wilson, FDR, Truman, (Kennedy would have been but died before he could really mess things up), LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and his current majesty, the 19th century dems James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, and the RINO Hoover who’s statist response to what would have been known as the Panic of 1929 turned it into the great depression.
For THE worst I’d have to go with FDR who created the modern socialist state and greatly prolonged the depression. Everyone ranks him as one of the “greatest”. The greastest at screwing up the country. Obviously he and his boy Truman are the most overrated, the later is especially overrated by conservatives, he was in fact an incompetent statist pig of the highest order and had bottom basement popularity for most of his Presidency.
Harding is easily the most screwed over by historians.
Grant wasn’t great or anything but I think they’re a little hard on him too. Apparently having a few corrupt cronies is the worst sin a (Republican only of course) President can have according to historians.