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« on: June 01, 2015, 05:53:39 PM » |
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Harding, by a mile. Wilson probably rightfully went down as the better President in the corny, catch-all historian sense, but Harding was a better man by most standards, and his policies were a lot better.
I'll actually agree with Lief, HST and Phony here, though, that far left posters picking Harding over Wilson really is rejecting the spirit of liberalism. We often get hung up on actual, rather inconsequential tactics to describe someone's ideology (e.g., Lincoln used the Federal government a lot so he's a liberal or Clinton cut welfare, so he's a conservative), when it's really their motives that were important. Wilson really did, in so many ways, set the stage for FDR, while Harding unabashedly campaigned on a conservative, pro-business message. And, ending my disagreement with those posters, that's exactly why I picked him.
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