Devils_Advocate
Diamond Member
There was a depression from 1920-'22 in the wake of WWI that nobody ever talks about....Wonder why?Coolidge turned a depression around by cutting gubmint....Doesn't get anymore fiscally conservative than that.Coolidge.You first have to explain how and when Trump ever became Conservative because even those voting for him know he is not one ever...
Most GOP tend to lean Social Conservative and play fiscal conservative when out of power but there has never been a true blue Conservative President on the fiscal side of the coin and never will be or Ron Paul would have been elected...
You got it, Jack.
That is the issue with discussing the Conservative movement and reality of it being applied by the GOP...
Fact is Trump, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and so on were never fiscal Conservative but had shown social conservatism except for Trump...
Nixon, Ike and Roosevelt were progressive for their time and would never be considered Conservative by any means...
So it does make me wonder when the left open this discussion why do they make the mistake thinking America ever had a true blue Conservative President?
We have had moderate to progressive Presidents and a few Social Conservative Presidents but never a fiscal Conservative unless you want to count Andrew Jackson?
Was he though?
I mean the last true fiscal Conservative this country ever had as a President had to be Andrew Jackson...
All the rest never passed the smell test...
The Depression happened on Hoover watch which gave us FDR... Coolidge had already left office in 1929 when the crash happened...
He is considered small Government but he had nothing to do with turning the Depression around and neither did FDR...
It was a war that pulled us out of it...
President Coolidge’s Economics Lesson
www.coolidgefoundation.org
There was also one in the 1890’s...
Still if you use those dates he was not President then either...
He became President after the death of Harding in 1923...