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Reagan banned machine guns, boo.
Ron Paul was right about everything. He's a hero.
Teddy Roosevelt
What do you like about Teddy Roosevelt?
I like his economic views more so than most of the others on this list. That and he was just a cool guy in general.
Teddy roosevelt, coolage, reagan, nixon (except his stellar performance on watergate and his mentality toward elections). Non of the others that I know of.
What about Roosevelt do you like? Isn’t he very different from the others? not sure about Nixon though
I like roosevelts balance of regulation and government involvement. Like Reagan people blame him for bad policies when those policies made sense at the time but people just copied their homework. He also had phenomenal appointments. I also appreciate any republican that stayed out of segregation and suffrage or got involved as long as they recognized that the south was wrong, even if they felt they couldn’t change it.
I would say Teddy Roosevelt, why? National Park Service since he influenced the idea of it. Best investment our nation has ever done.
Neoconservative. The economic, geopolitical opposite side of the leftwing coin. Geopolitical/economic "small government" neoconservatism has been the engine and enabler of the cultural, institutional take-over of the further left. An opium dealer upon the right.
Big fan of his empire vision, unapologetic Western conviction, conservationism, and robust, masculine, near Kingly, high morality, Solomon-like ways and vision for his role and Presidency.
Don't know enough.
Same as above.
Not bad, but a bit too libertarian/individualist so far as I can tell. Such has similar short-comings to neoconservatism, but with more sincerity, morality, and rationality. He & his son still get high marks a lot though.
A bit too centrist for my taste in his preferences. But he's very savvy, constrains those impulses very well, aligns with my friends, is against my enemies, and has an unparalled instinct for fighting the "Uniparty" leftwing order (eg see: Reaganism mentioned above) with the aim to hold onto values half of America wants to see kept alive.
The proto-Trump perhaps? He saw the Administrative State and leftwing capture of it a mile away but got squished like a bug under a steam-roller despite it all. His vision of what was going on, was apparently strong. But his was the curse of knowledge & no power to stop it. He was on the wrong side of an avalanche. Which cost him. He appears to me to be the flip side of LBJ.
They tried hard to 'Nixon' Trump, but so far Trump has survived exactly what Nixon could not, and did not. The time just wasn't ripe for Nixon. Trump got much luckier.
The difference is Nixon saw the writing on the wall but still got stuck holding the check. Trump didn't really until it was punching him in the face.
Trump was just sentimentally trying to keep us grounded in, and carrying forward our past, and only survived the machine out of sheer luck, resources, will, savvy, and it seems a far more informed populace. So his 2nd term will be more positioned Nixon-like in perception of his and our enemies.
I suppose Teddy and Nixon and Trump. But different parts of them.
Teddy's self-vision and Nation-vision.
Nixon's acute perception of the lay of the land.
Trump's sentimentality for American Westernism and extraordinary, pugilistic, fighting-spirit and instincts.
Paul, Goldwater, and Coolidge. Reagan banned machine guns and helped create gun-free zones, Teddy was all about government intervention, Trump’s just another protectionist, and Nixon created the EPA
Not an amererican and I've never been to america.
Of them all I prefer Ronald Reagan, although I'm no fan of the bible bashers and noisy religious zealots of other varieties that were the major part of his 'religious right' alliance.
Herbert Hoover was the last real republican.
Absolutely hated US involvement in foreign wars. We've no obligation to save Europe from itself. "Fortress America" all the way.
As someone who is not American, I think Teddy Roosevelt was a pretty good president.