Which recent Republican President was the best leader of the Republican Party

[OSR stands with Israel]

This is hard cause while W was the only one of the 3 to be reelected and led the Republicans to the longest period of one party rule since the Democrats in the 1960s, he also left the Republicans in their worse shape since 1974.

[dw93]

Even with leaving the party in bad shape at the end of his 2nd term, it's W as he won an election in 2000 that fundamentally favored the Democrats, used the rally around the flag effect after 9/11 to such an advantage to where is party netted gains in the 2002 midterms despite a bad economy, and was the first President in decades to be re elected and see his party net gains in both chambers of congress at the same time (Clinton, Reagan, and Nixon saw net loses in the senate during their landslide re election bids).

HW owes his win in 1988 to Reagan's personal popularity and Dukakis being a laughably bad candidate to the Presidency, he had no coattails of his own down ticket in 1988, suffered net loses in 1990, and was defeated for re election in 1992.

Trump saw the GOP see its worst defeat in the House since 1974 despite a good economy and despite the heavy Republican gerrymandering that took place after the 2010 census, lost the Presidency two years after that, and thanks to his post election shenanigans, lost the Republicans the Senate in the GA runoffs, becoming the first President since Hoover in 1932 to lose his party the House, the Senate, and the Presidency in just four years, and no Trump was not responsible for the net gains the GOP made in the House in 2020, given the split ticket voting that happened (Biden for Pres, GOP downticket) as well as the far left of the Democratic party shooting the entire party in the foot with the defund the police b.s.

[OSR stands with Israel]

One argument for HW is he basically sued many states and successfully overturned many dem gerrymanders that led to a much more favorable 1991 redistricting cycle for the GOP

[Ferguson97]

Argument for HW: only one on this list to not be an incompetent buffoon.

Argument for Dubya: only one on this list to get re-elected.

Argument for Trump: only one on this list to have a cult-like following.