Posted on 06/21/2016 8:51:57 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
After a war no one wanted and eight years of the devious and racially divisive Democrat Woodrow Wilson, America was ready for a change and “return to normalcy.”
Nevertheless, it took until the tenth ballot at their 1920 nominating convention for Republicans to select Calvin Coolidge as their presidential candidate even though few thought could win.
But the plain speaking Coolidge did win and went to work immediately to fix the Democrat mess that had put America in a deep recession that caused the unemployment rate to hit 15%.
In just six months of saying ‘No” to new spending and drastically cutting taxes Coolidge ended the crisis, cut unemployment in half and got the nation back on its feet.
There was nothing mysterious about Coolidge’s success. He pulled the country back from the Democrats’ record debts and shrank the size of government with a firm management style that worked for the American people, not the special interests.
In our current period of high national debt, low productivity, record low labor participation and growing dependency on government programs, the opportunities for a President Donald Trump to emulate Coolidge and achieve similar success are clearly obvious.
Trump is an expert at diagnosing and fixing just the type of financial problems America faces today. He is a man of action at a time that is very similar to conditions in 1921 and will be just as effective as...
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Trump could be much more conservative than first thought.
This article has a major factual error.
Warren Harding was the Republican nominee in 1920. Coolidge was his VP running mate.
Coolidge became president when Harding died. Coolidge was elected as president in 1924.
Um, Coolidge was Harding’s Vice-Presidential running mate in the 1920 election. He did not become President until Harding’s death in 1923.
Beat me to it!
Or, great minds think alike.
Silent Cal is my favorite president next Reagan...
Reading this story from a conservative website with a basic fact so completely wrong is an embarrassment. Coach needs to up his game.
Exactly. I am agog at the ignorance of this article.
The 1920 election was interesting in that the winner, Warren G. Harding, was the first man to be elected POTUS directly from the Senate. There are not that many of them, actually. Incidentally, Harding was from Ohio - and so was his opponent, Gov. James M. Cox.If that was all you knew about them, you would expect Cox, the governor, to prevail over Harding, the senator. But the public was well and truly fed up with the Wilson Administration (and WWI) - and took it out on Cox and his running mate, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
We could do a helluva lot worse than “Silent Cal.” And have!
What the hell is Trump doing? Do you know he has no ground game is Ohio?
Not a single operative.
I don’t think he’s even trying to win this thing.
The conflict in large part is between inert ideologues who primarily want to conserve the way we arrange deck chairs, and pragmatic patriots who want to save the sinking ship.
If Trump can help us conserve the United States of America as a sovereign nation, then he would be a conservative in a major way that none of the other vaunted 16 would have done.
The educational establishment has tried for decades to make the name Calvin Coolidge the punchline to some unspoken joke. But the truth is, while he was in office, he was immensely popular with the public.
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