“I don’t think that he’s even as good as Coolidge, but given most of the dead wood around, he does look brilliant by comparison.”
Coolidge looks brilliant compared to Hoover, and has incredible integrity compared to Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton!
Coolidge looks great compared to everyone who followed him. Of the rest, Reagan is the only one who ranks better than a strictly neutral rendering of “not bad.”
But the post I was responding to held that Trump is the greatest American since Washington.
Coolidge is our fourth greatest Prez behind GW, Lincoln, and Reagan in “A Patriot’s History of the United States.”