1. Washington. The antithesis of FDR. The man who could have been king because his troops wanted to march on Washington and make him king because they were not being paid, but turned Washington turned it down to give power back to Congress. As the king of England said, if Washington is able to do this, he will go down in history as one of the greatest men of all time. A real head scratcher in terms of being opposite all other men who crave power typically. Conversely, FDR made himself king. All other Presidents followed the example of Washington by choosing not to do more than two terms. Not FDR though, oh no, no, no. FDR gave the Grim Reaper and fight for his money cuz he wanted to be President forever.
2. Jefferson. Here is a man who fought the Alien and Sedition Acts. These acts made it illegal to speak out against government, and the country would have been a much darker place had he not doe so. As it was, the provisions left over that Jefferson could not do away with FDR used to lock up innocent Japanese Americans. Again, Jefferson was the antithesis of Jefferson as well. Jefferson's biggest flaw was he compromised with the Declaration of Independence and opted not to free the slaves. Having sex with his slaves probably did not help either.
3. Madison. Madison essentially wrote the Constitution. Although he had help, he was the brains of the Founding Fathers. Here is a man who whose Constitution Progressives trashed via his General Welfare clause. For you see, Progressives have used the General Welfare clause to justify expanding the government endlessly. In fact, here is what Madison wrote about his own General Welfare clause
“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”
~ James Madison
4. Monroe. Why Monroe? Because it goes down hill quickly from here, that's why. Pretty soon you get John Quincy Adams up there trying to expand government the way Progressive do today, then there is the train wreck Andrew Jackson and Indian killer, the first democrat and a real prick.
Reagan? Trump? These are just residue from conservatism. They were trapped in a system that pulled them in, chewed them up, and spat them out, just speed bumps on the road to the inevitable.
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