McKinley vs. Coolidge vs. Eisenhower vs. Reagan

[TDAS04]

Four Republican president who personified their respective conservative decades (1890s, 1920s. 1950s, 1980s).

[President Johnson]

Ike, and it is not remotely close.

[Alben Barkley]

Eisenhower by orders of magnitude

[OSR stands with Israel]

Reagan narrowly over Eisenhower as he actually managed to bring down the new deal economic consensus . Their FP are close to equal imo as Reagan’s FP was basically modeled after Eisenhower’s. My ranking of this would be


1. Reagan
2. Eisenhower
3. McKinley (also a top 10 president all time imo )
4. Coolidge

[OSR stands with Israel]

Ike, and it is not remotely close.

How would you rank them

[TheReckoning]

1. Eisenhower
2. Reagan
(Those two are really close and both in the “near great” category of presidents)
3. McKinley
4. Coolidge

[Lechasseur]

Eisenhower

[dw93]

Eisenhower>McKinley>Reagan>Coolidge.

[Mr. Smith]

Three things:

1. The 50's weren't really conservative, just like the 90's weren't liberal.

2. Cleveland's disastrous second term represents the 1890's conservatism far better.

3. I vote for Eisenhower.

[President Johnson]

Ike, and it is not remotely close.

How would you rank them

1. Eisenhower
2. McKinley
3. Reagan
4. Coolidge

[TheTide]

Eisenhower



Coolidge
McKinley


Reagan

[Senator Incitatus]

Three things:

1. The 50's weren't really conservative, just like the 90's weren't liberal.

2. Cleveland's disastrous second term represents the 1890's conservatism far better.

3. I vote for Eisenhower.

Cleveland was a radical liberal of the Manchester School, not in any way conserving the traditional American System as McKinley did.

[RINO Tom]

1. Ike
2. Ronnie Raygun
3. Bill McKinley
4. Silent Cal

All were good, and 2-4 were miles better than most on this site say.

[MarkD]

Coolidge. He appointed only one Supreme Court Justice, but that one appointee -- Harlan F. Stone -- was among the best justices we've ever had.


McKinley also appointed only one justice -- Joseph McKenna -- and that appointment was awful. It was obviously a display of cronyism. McKenna was clearly unqualified to serve on the highest court. He joined several of the Court decisions that were conservative judicial activism. He was suffering dementia for the last few months he was on the Court; all of his colleagues met behind his back to form a pact that they would not let him be the deciding vote in any 4-4 splits; Chief Justice Taft kept trying to persuade McKenna to resign due to his health. But McKenna spent a few months resisting those pleas, until he finally gave in. (Stone replaced McKenna.)
Eisenhower appointed two awful liberal judicial activists (Warren and Brennan), and three other justices who were only mediocre. (Perhaps it would be best to describe Whitaker as the best appointee by Eisenhower, but Whitaker was not emotionally capable of performing his duties as a member of the highest court; he didn't want the job on that Court; it drove him to have a nervous breakdown, leading to an early retirement.)
Reagan appointed one awful ideologically moderate judicial activist (Kennedy), and two other mediocre justices (O'Connor and Scalia).

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The R party before the Tea Party Revolt was moderate on Immigration, that's why  the Rs won VA, CO and NV now with Trump and Palin they are the anti immigration party, CO, NC, VA makes up OH 20 EC votes

[Sir Mohamed]

1. Eisenhower

--- huge gap ---

2. Coolidge
3. McKinley
4. Raygun

[Schiff for Senate]

Eisenhower

[Del Tachi]

Eisenhower by orders of magnitude

[Vosem]

Reagan by far. Eisenhower's foreign policy was disastrous, Coolidge was an extreme do-nothing type who delegated his authority to his Cabinet, and McKinley seems good only by comparison to his truly disastrous opponents, both in domestic politics and on the international stage.

[jaichind]

1. Coolidge
2. Reagan
3. Eisenhower
4. McKinley

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Reagan (my favorite of all time)
Ike
McKinley
Coolidge