Washington slammed farmers and instituted a harmful tax, which he sent the army (under Hamilton) to collect. Jefferson endorsed Gallatin's plan for a "public works" program that was double (!) the size of the entire federal budget at that time; Monroe took it as a badge of honor that he was a "compromiser." Henry Clay, viewed as the greatest man never to win the presidency, made a career out of compromise. Coolidge, whom I greatly respect, signed a farm subsidy bill and ordered the court martial of Billy Mitchell.
People are complex, and the thing that bugs me the most here is that radicals of all sorts tend to think that if you don't agree with them you are flat wrong, unconstitutional, and illegal. I've got news for them: there are millions of people (and no small number of constitutional lawyers) who would say there is NOTHING unconstitutional about CFR, any more than the "fire in the theater" clause is "unconstitutional." I don't agree, but to dismiss them is not very sensible and certainly not good politics.