So let me get this straight:
The President who vetoed more spending bills of any president since Cleveland, stood as a vanguard against attempts by Democrats to increase the scope of New Deal programs, and had more years with budget surpluses than any president since Coolidge. . . . . . was a liberal Keynesian hack just because muh roads?
A necessary document my friends:
http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/12/17/how-eisenhower-and-congressional-democrats-balanced-a-budget/Ike was more of a ficon than ANY of the Presidents that succeeded him and probably more than every president since at least Hoover. This idea that he was a liberal or even a moderate just because he signed the Interstate into existence (and even then there is a very strong argument to be made that even that was motivated by conservative elements, given that big business would benefit massively from the internal improvements) and didn't call for an immediate end for the New Deal is a serious misreading of American History.
