Posted on 08/20/2019 2:51:50 PM PDT by TBP
On the eve of World War II, the Republican Party was a shell of the one that had dominated presidential politics from the Civil War through the onset of the Great Depression.
Two individuals saved the GOP and made it relevant again.
Dwight Eisenhower ran on an internationalist platform in 1952, favoring foreign aid to Europe, the new military alliance called NATO and an aggressive stance against Soviet Communism, thereby asserting U.S. world leadership. He vanquished his isolationist foe, Sen. Robert Taft, for the GOP nomination in 1952 and then won the first Republican presidential victory in 20 years.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan sought to move the GOP beyond its narrow confines in the Northeast and Midwest. He built on Eisenhower’s internationalism, preaching limited government, free markets and supply-side economics – policies designed to bring prosperity to ALL Americans, not just the well-connected.
Two signature issues – restricting immigration and trade – have pushed back on 60 years of Republican orthodoxy and dramatically changed the party’s image and focus.
Trade policy is the first example. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), designed to marginalize China, has been shelved. Speaking of China, we are on the verge of a full-blown trade war with no end in sight and no clear end game. Presidential adviser Peter Navarro is an unabashed admirer of tariffs and believes they have contributed to our strong economy.
Most economists and virtually all CEOs would disagree.
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Eisenhower was a great president and Nixon almost certainly won the 1960 election. Kennedy called Nixon and acknowledged the disputed election. Nixon answered, “No, you have won”.
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Those I have known who were involved in the Taft campaign said his most likely choice for a running mate would have been his deputy and successor, Senator William F. Knowland of California. I think we would hve been fine with Bill Knowland as president, assuming Bob Taft would still hve died.
Some people were trying to put together a Taft/MacArthur ticket. That might have been ideal.
You forget how much President Reagan did.
Taft would have beaten Stevenson.
And you know this how exactly?
But didn’t Nixon make the sale based on it would turn China into an ally and modernize their democracy of did that come later?
A more minor issue is Nixon taking the USA off the gold standard which has lead to runaway inflation.
Didn’t he also try to enact price controls? He seems to be an interventionist at best, a socialist at worst?
Cool. Will add to reading list. Right now I am interested in learning about Washington, as I am working my way through the series Turn.
First of all, Nixon was not a Socialist of any stripe!
Inflation has been a part of America's financial history forever; on and off. It's far worse today ( though NOBODY ever talks about it! ) and over the past 40 or so years, than it ever was before and being off the "gold standard" has had nothing at all to do with it!
You need to educate yourself about the history of the "GOLD STANDARD"; both here and world wide...why and how the price fluctuated,who set it, who, when, and why a nation took their nation off it, and the results! And no, I am not going to spoon feed this info to you!
Going back in time, DEPRESSIONS ( which this nation has gone through and several as bad, if not worse than the one that began in 1929, 1987, and 2008 )resulted in prices of everything falling. That no longer happens. Recessions were accompanied by inflation, as were BUBBLES.
I've explained to you about China and Russian banding together and separating them being the large part of the reason that Nixon did the whole "OPEN CHINA" thing. Have you NO idea at all what the world situation was like back then? Sadly, it appears that you don't; which makes any further discussion, with you impossible!
Yes Nixon created this monstrosity called SDRs, as make believe alternatives to an honest money supply.
Thus I always like to use 1975 and apples-bread-automobiles. Since then those 3 items have massively outpaced wage increases due to inflation unleashed by dishonest monetary policy.
Not so much about gold but not replacing it with honest money. 1975 I see as the pinnacle of the middle class, when one man still worked, and his kids each had their own automobile, and they family still had savings.
Goldwater and Reagan opposed Nixon’s efforts on China, and both were correct to do so. Sadly the East coast machine put Nixon, one of the worst Presidents into power, over a vastly superior Goldwater.
Goldwater was a a looney lefty, whose crazy positions, which came out after he had lost out being president, are about as far from Conservative and AOC's are today.
Strange outlooks because I rather see Trump as the anti-Nixon, and much like the Goldwater of our times.
“Yes Nixon created this monstrosity called SDRs, as make believe alternatives to an honest money supply.”
Special Drawing Rights were created in 1969 while Nixon was President but I’m pretty sure that he didn’t have anything to do with it. It was an IMF reaction to the nearly decade long weakness already visible in the dollar that had led the dual gold market of the ‘60s.
SDR’s are a basket based “currency” created by the International Monetary Fund entirely for balancing accounts between member countries. It’s similar to the “Bancor” that Keynes had proposed at Bretton Woods to keep the dollar from getting caught in the very trap that its reserve currency status put it in. The dollar could have retained its link to gold if it hadn’t been the world reserve currency, a situation which resulted in more dollars being held as foreign bank reserves than we had gold to back them.
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There is more gold in the ground in the military reserves of Nevada that there is in circulation in the entire world.
This is why the BLM is constantly ignoring the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty.
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William F. Knowland was the most patriotic conservative news publisher of all time.
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The majority of Republicans including Thomas Dewey were happy to have the hero of WWII victory in Europe as their candidate.
Eisenhower didn't know Brennan and his decision to nominate him to the Court was influenced by a speech which Brennan read but hadn't written, and which didn't reflect Brennan's actual views.
You're implying that Eisenhower was a fan of Earl Warren which is known not to be the case.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/commander-v-chief/554045/
"Appointments he later regretted: Eisenhower famously said that his biggest mistake had been selecting “that dumb son of a bitch Earl Warren.” Or so one of his early biographers claims; the remark has come into question. Warren himself wrote that the president was known to have described his appointment as “the biggest damn fool thing I ever did.” Another version has it that when asked whether he had ever made any mistakes, Eisenhower replied, “Yes: two. And they are both sitting on the Supreme Court.”
And you know this how, exactly?
Trump wants to still trade with China...just NOT on an uneven playing field, where our products are taxed ( TARIFFS! ) at an extremely high rate, now, if they are allowed in at all.
How old were you in 1964; were you of voting age or younger?
Horse puckey. Different prescription for a different time and circumstances.
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We know this from geological studies conducted by our government conducted over 100 years ago.
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