No doubt about it. Taft was the precursor of Hoover twenty years earlier.
Not quite. Taft was a Conservative, Hoover was a liberal. Had Hoover carried on in the tradition of his two predecessors, we’d never have had a prolonged Depression. Harding, so long maligned by historians, resolved the economic downturn at the end of Wilson’s reign in record time. My opinion of him radically changed when I learned just how successful his economic policies were... because they were so common-sense. Remember that the Democrats tried to get Hoover to run for President under THEIR label in 1920... he was preferred by both Wilson AND FDR ! It was only due to his reading the political tea leaves for that year and a lame excuse about not officially registering as one why he didn’t. If anything, Hoover was more like Ike, who also was a disaster as a Republican President.