Why was Ike a disaster beyond that he picked earl warren for supreme court justice.
that was bad but nearlyevery republican since him has made the same kind of numb nuts mistake.
and we still have not recovered.
Ike was a disaster for one basic reason: He wasn’t a Conservative. He really wasn’t a Republican, either. His father was a Socialist activist, Ike was raised a left-winger and he never left those roots behind. The Democrats (Truman, specifically) wanted him as their nominee for President.
The RINO Establishment of the time, whom had run nothing but “Progressives” since 1928, to disastrous effect beginning with Hoover (an ex-Wilsonian Progressive Democrat) wanted to stop the Conservative Sen. Robert Taft, and Ike as the “Moderate” alternative fit the bill (and in the process stopped the Conservative ticket of Taft and Gen. Douglas MacArthur).
Ike couldn’t have done more damage if he had served as a Democrat, and probably given the GOP a fighting chance to not have ended up as a permanent minority party for the better part of 6 decades.