The Trump GOP resembles the party of Calvin Coolidge

[JGalt]

Contrary to what modern-day Democrats will tell you, Coolidge was a good President. And like President Trump, the GOP under President Coolidge was committed to economic protection, restricted immigration and non-intervention abroad.

"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes." -- Calvin Coolidge

Good read from the WSJ:

"It’s hard to think of two American presidents with less in common than Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. For one thing, Coolidge held a variety of public offices, from Massachusetts governor to vice president, before assuming office on Aug. 2, 1923. Mr. Trump had no government or military experience before his inauguration in 2017.

Coolidge, moreover, was a budget hawk who never met a line item he didn’t want to cut. Mr. Trump presided over record peacetime deficits even before federal spending took a quantum leap during the coronavirus pandemic. Coolidge was also a man of few words. Trump is not.

Yet these personal differences obscure important political similarities. Both Coolidge and Mr. Trump staked their presidencies on voter satisfaction with broadly shared prosperity. Both supported restricting immigration into the United States. Both wanted to protect American industry from foreign competition. Both sought to avoid overseas entanglements..."

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[Failzero]

He also was GTG with the Klan Bakes when over a Million Kluxers took over DC ( With blessing of the Democrat Controlled Congress ) & marched 30 wide & miles long down Pennsylvania Avenue .

 

[whitehall]

Does it make any sense to make comparisons like this? The goal of any administration used to be "peace and prosperity". Historically every bloody conflict in the bloody 20th century started during a democrat administration. Everything went wrong with FDR's first two terms and his third. Americans were dying in ditches of starvation during FDR's Great Depression and the U.S. was criminally unprepared for WW2. FDR was guilty of the worst kind of atrocity of placing innocent American citizens in concentration camps but the liberal media turned the FDR administration into a success story.

 

[Pellinore]

As a historian, I can say he's largely correct. Coolidge was maybe the laissez-fairiest of the lassez-faire Presidents, believing that the government's promise for freedom meant to be as non-interventionist as possible, with very few regulations and business being given a very wide berth to bring peace and prosperity to the country. That, of course, led the country and therefore the world straight into the jaws of the Great Depression. Hoover, coming from the same school of thought, tried to control it using the same line of thinking (tariffs, austerity, and letting the market sort it out) to no avail. This is how we, as a society, learned that laissez-faire does not work in a post-industrial world, because the ultra-rich top 1% inevitably cause a ton of lost freedoms for the other 99% without regulation, social services, and so on.

The article is completely correct when it says that this pro-business line of thinking (along with the anti-immigrant and anti-interventionist thinking that came with it) is in common with Trump and Coolidge. Read on, though, and the author makes good points about how they are different: Trump is not anywhere near the bastion of traditional morality and self-control that Coolidge was, and "Silent Cal" would have rather been caught dead than giving a cheering, populist rally in front of a stadium full of MAGA hats.

Good article.

 

[TNHarley]

He is no coolidge

 

[whitehall]

How do you get to be a "historian"? Pass a test, get a degree? Self described historians can use terms like lassez faire but what's wrong with being non-interventionist and pro business? The left was non-interventionist and anti-business in the 60's and we ended up with Jimmie Carter. President Trump was a businessman and we had four years of peace and prosperity and along came a career politician who never had a real job and we are back to Jimmie Carter on steroids.

 

[Pellinore]

How do you get to be a "historian"? Pass a test, get a degree? Self described historians can use terms like lassez faire but what's wrong with being non-interventionist and pro business? The left was non-interventionist and anti-business in the 60's and we ended up with Jimmie Carter. President Trump was a businessman and we had four years of peace and prosperity and along came a career politician who never had a real job and we are back to Jimmie Carter on steroids.

You didn't learn laissez-faire in high school? Fair enough; if you like, you can substitute the term "hands-off"; it means a government that doesn't regulate business and industry very much, giving them a lot of leeway in their operations.

And it's the same way you become a doctor, or a soldier, or a plumber, or most other jobs: You either get a job doing it, or get an advanced degree in it, or both.

 

[Lastamender]

Wasn't he nicknamed "Silent Cal'?

 

[whitehall]

You didn't learn laissez-faire in high school? Fair enough; if you like, you can substitute the term "hands-off"; it means a government that doesn't regulate business and industry very much, giving them a lot of leeway in their operations.

And it's the same way you become a doctor, or a soldier, or a plumber, or most other jobs: You either get a job doing it, or get an advanced degree in it, or both.

Maybe "historians" didn't learn that no U.S. administration ever deregulated businesses and industry. The concept is a cliche mostly used by socialists.

 

[Pellinore]

Maybe "historians" didn't learn that no U.S. administration ever deregulated businesses and industry. The concept is a cliche mostly used by socialists.

Is that so? Tell me more.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Contrary to what modern-day Democrats will tell you, Coolidge was a good President. And like President Trump, the GOP under President Coolidge was committed to economic protection, restricted immigration and non-intervention abroad.

"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes." -- Calvin Coolidge

Good read from the WSJ:

"It’s hard to think of two American presidents with less in common than Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. For one thing, Coolidge held a variety of public offices, from Massachusetts governor to vice president, before assuming office on Aug. 2, 1923. Mr. Trump had no government or military experience before his inauguration in 2017.

Coolidge, moreover, was a budget hawk who never met a line item he didn’t want to cut. Mr. Trump presided over record peacetime deficits even before federal spending took a quantum leap during the coronavirus pandemic. Coolidge was also a man of few words. Trump is not.

Yet these personal differences obscure important political similarities. Both Coolidge and Mr. Trump staked their presidencies on voter satisfaction with broadly shared prosperity. Both supported restricting immigration into the United States. Both wanted to protect American industry from foreign competition. Both sought to avoid overseas entanglements..."

archive.ph

you totally nailed it,great minds think alike. There are a lot of sheep in America that have been brainwashed by what our corrupt school system taught them that Eisenhower and Reagan were for the people when they were mass murderering traiters who should have been hung up by ther balls they were so corrupt.

Trump is our first republican president sense Coolidge who was a conservative and served the people instead of the elite.

this truthful post will trigger the sheep obviously and the thumbs down and laughing smileys will come in sense the truth hurts and it triggers them.lol