Ike did absolutely nothing to curtail the march of leftism begun under Hoover and exploded under FDR/Truman. He swiftly pissed away a mandate to roll back the Socialist agenda and the Dems ran away with a majority beginning with the 1954 elections (and culminating with the disastrous 1958 elections) that effectively ran for the next 40 years. He was the left-leaning establishment pol that has typified the GOP leadership forever since, with a brief vacation under Reagan. In 1952, the GOP ticket should’ve been Taft-MacArthur.
If Trump ends up another Ike, another Socialist RINO, this country is finished. I want Trump to be another Warren Harding, an excellent Conservative who actually rolled back Socialist government under Wilson and created the 1920s economic success story. Historians and the left hate Harding for that and rank him as one of the worst Presidents when he is the complete opposite.
Match Gane style: “I want Trump to be another (blank).”
I’ll go with Charles Martel.
Ike: Like Clinton, is considered “something” only because he WAS LUCKY enough to be POTUS during a booming economy.
Frankly, I’m not satisfied with the conservative idolization of Ronald Reagan. I appreciate your points about Eisenhower. I was born during his administration so did not “live thru” it. One must study history but living in a time gives more information. As a youth I heard from my dad about his thoughts on current events to him under Eisenhower, Truman and just the end of FDR’s dynasty. Daddy mostly approves of Ike on military matters but he has a big issue over McCarthy. Daddy sees McCarthy as a hero. In today’s world the equivalent would be fighting terrorism and/or illegal immigration. Dad hates to this day what the media did to Sen. McCarthy and blames other politicians and Ike for not giving him more backing in the end.
I saw terrorism begin under Carter and yeah the Iranians released hostages the day Reagan took office but we continued to have terror attacks from Muslims under his watch. He also instituted a huge amnesty for illegals that I find fault with.
I don’t want Reagan or Nixon or Eisenhower. I want someone MORE conservative. Right now, I think Donald Trump is talking the right talk. I pray he gets elected and that he’s not just all talk.
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He may have slowed it down as opposed to what Stevenson would have done. To use the late Howard Phillips's analogy (which I quote often), when Democrats are in charge, it's as if we're in a car going off a cliff at 100 miles per hour. At least Republicans drive the speed limit -- but you're still going off the cliff. What we need to do is turn the car around.
Now, really, the march began in the progressive era with Wilson (and before him, TR), and it continued, with short interruptions under Coolidge and somewhat under Reagan, to this very day.