There is no comparison between HH and Donald Trump. Trump isn’t running for President to tinker around. Everything he does is yuge. And he plans on making yuge changes. He is the only candidate with the force of personality to actually effect significant change. The guy is a natural born problem solver. Would you want to be the GOP politician that says no to Trump?
Certainly he has a more forceful personality than HH. Agreed.
By tinker, I didn’t mean making small gestures.
I really meant that in a technical, economic sense, in that he (Hoover) wanted to command the economy. He was sort of the pre-Roosevelt Republican. He wasn’t committed to a free market path (though late in life he did). And it has been argued, credibly, in my opinion, that his soft command of the economy prolonged the recession and paved the way for FDR, and well, the rest is history.
Back to Trump. I support him btw. But I don’t think we can say that he is deeply committed to free market principles. He is focused on fixing problems. And he might be willing to use governmental power to fix things...and that is what makes me nervous, because government always makes it worse....and that may set us up for who knows what.....
That’s the thought anyways....