Greatest Republican President of All Time

[Neanderthaland]

Nixon was a great president who got taken down on a scandal that would be a 2-week story today

That's not a good thing.

[Ethel mermania]

Not prolonging the vietnam war for 4 unnecessary years

And the EPA, because anything in favor of the environment is left wing hardcore stalinism or something like that.

The old California hippies I know liked nixon too. As governor of CA, he opened up the private beaches to public surfers. (Most of the ca hippies I know are surfers). He also offered some sort of public health insurance. (Ted Kennedy turned him down).

[Hurdergaryp]

Nixon was a great president who got taken down on a scandal that would be a 2-week story today

That's not a good thing.

These days journalists get assaulted by the police for no apparent reason, which implies quite a few things have changed since the early seventies.

[Ethel mermania]

Not prolonging the vietnam war for 4 unnecessary years

Are you sure you mean Cadet Bone Spur?

Cadet bone spur was a democrat back then

[Asle Leopolka]

Lincoln is the objectively best answer.

Teddy was the most badass, though.

[Ethel mermania]

Nixon was a great president who got taken down on a scandal that would be a 2-week story today

PRAY WITH ME HENRY!

[The Huskar Social Union]

Lincoln seems like an obvious shoutout, but ive also heard great things about Eisenhower and from the bits of his presidency ive read about he seemed decent enough for the most part.

[Alcala-Cordel]

Lincoln was the best followed by Roosevelt, Reagan was the worst followed by Trump.

[The Black Forrest]

Are you sure you mean Cadet Bone Spur?

Cadet bone spur was a democrat back then

I didn’t mention Nixon. I asked what has Trump done that is on par for things Nixon did. Excluding the criminal stuff of course.

[Ethel mermania]

Cadet bone spur was a democrat back then

I didn’t mention Nixon. I asked what has Trump done that is on par for things Nixon did. Excluding the criminal stuff of course.

If we are going to compare trump to nixon, nixon comes in to it.
To answer your particular question, Nothing.

[Novus America]

I avoid Lincoln because although he was a great wartime president and had some great domestic ideas on paper, he was limited by the wartime constraints. It is sad he did not get a chance to really live out much of his second term. He could have been really great, although that is somewhat speculative.

After that Teddy and Ike (yes they were not perfect but great men who did great things for the US). Ike was the last truly great US president.

Oh Nixon. The infamous VERY mixed bag. For every great thing something horrible to offset it. Truly brilliant but unstable and immoral.

Interesting thing I must always mentioned. Nixon had a plan for carbon free power production by 1980! 1980! 1980 we could have solve the air pollution from power production!

But no the anti nuclear fanatics killed the environment. Anti nuclear is the worst thing to happen to the US since Vietnam.

[Novus America]

Cadet bone spur was a democrat back then

I didn’t mention Nixon. I asked what has Trump done that is on par for things Nixon did. Excluding the criminal stuff of course.

Trump shifted the Overton window on trade, away from the Puritan “free trade” insanity.
That is something. Sure not enough make him great at all (he has not pushed a new look on trade hard enough) but something.

[Cyng]

Trump at least has balls. They're small, but it's better than nothing

[The Great-German Empire]

Coolidge is missing from this poll. He should take Hoover's place.

He definitely should. Coolidge was a model conservative and its a shame he's been forgotten by mostly everyone.

Hear, hear, hear.

Trump shifted the Overton window on trade, away from the Puritan “free trade” insanity.
That is something. Sure not enough make him great at all (he has not pushed a new look on trade hard enough) but something.

I'm of the same opinion. Trump's most significant effect after he leaves - be it in 7 months or 4 years - will probably be the change of conversation he represents. The Republican Party has been changed dramatically, and I'm pretty sure that the Democratic Party has too - though I have less insight there.

[Free Northwest Sovereign]

Roosevelt is my favorite president overall, but Eisenhower was the last bad conservative Republican. They've only gotten worse since.

[North German Realm]

Lincoln. To a lesser degree Grant and Roosevelt -even though the latter was an imperialist piece of garbage like pretty much every POTUS after 1898. The age of "good" republican presidents pretty much ended with Roosevelt, though Eisenhowever certainly tried to bring about a renaissance.

[HypErcApitAl]

Teddy isn't even a Rep. He was a Progressive/Bullmoose (his own party), and in that regard, a third-party.

I'll agree w/ those that say that, though. I love Teddy and his politics. (essentially Square Deal or BTFO/GTFO)

I'd say Reagan and Trump are the best. Bush is a warmonger. "lincoln is the best," is a cliche at this point. Y'all say he's the best cause he literally invented the Party, but most times, firsts aren't really the Bests.

In that regard, Wash. is the best since he was the first and only Independent POTUS. I know I sound like I'm Strawmanning, but I really hate that argument. Coolidge was a lameduck POTUS, but Washington was the OG lameduck. He did nothing. He just let his buddies do everything for him. And then he got killed off cause he had a small pain.

Wash. is overrated. Imma just say that. Bottomline.

[Exxosia]

Definitely Calvin Coolidge.

When I consider greatest presidents, I have to consider which did their actual job. That reduces the list to Coolidge and JFK. Only one is a republican, so default win.

[-Astoria]

But no the anti nuclear fanatics killed the environment. Anti nuclear is the worst thing to happen to the US since Vietnam.

Say what now? How, though?

[HypErcApitAl]

Definitely Calvin Coolidge.

When I consider greatest presidents, I have to consider which did their actual job. That reduces the list to Coolidge and JFK. Only one is a republican, so default win.

[Free Northwest Sovereign]

The latter was an imperialist piece of garbage like pretty much every POTUS after 1898.

Often "imperialist" is used by people who hate America yet can't argue why so they tack on an overused and ill defined phrase while allowing non-American leaders to infringe upon the rules egregiously. Saying that America is bad because it is imperialist and defining imperialist as any action America/the West takes in general is circular reasoning. At least clarify that you are an isolationist/consistent pacifist or hate America because using weak excuses and loaded words is a poor arguement against ideological opponents. Don't resort to the tankie strategy.

[HypErcApitAl]

The latter was an imperialist piece of garbage like pretty much every POTUS after 1898.

Often "imperialist" is used by people who hate America yet can't argue why so they tack on an overused and ill defined phrase while allowing non-American leaders to infringe upon the rules egregiously. Saying that America is bad because it is imperialist and defining imperialist as any action America/the West takes in general is circular reasoning. At least clarify that you are an isolationist/consistent pacifist or hate America because using weak excuses and loaded words is a poor arguement against ideological opponents. Don't resort to the tankie strategy.

Facts.

[-Astoria]

Often "imperialist" is used by people who hate America yet can't argue why so they tack on an overused and ill defined phrase while allowing non-American leaders to infringe upon the rules egregiously. Saying that America is bad because it is imperialist and defining imperialist as any action America/the West takes in general is circular reasoning. At least clarify that you are an isolationist/consistent pacifist or hate America because using weak excuses and loaded words is a poor arguement against ideological opponents. Don't resort to the tankie strategy.

A simple post search finds that he's used the term against non-western countries as well.

[North German Realm]

The latter was an imperialist piece of garbage like pretty much every POTUS after 1898.

Often "imperialist" is used by people who hate America yet can't argue why so they tack on an overused and ill defined phrase while allowing non-American leaders to infringe upon the rules egregiously. Saying that America is bad because it is imperialist and defining imperialist as any action America/the West takes in general is circular reasoning. At least clarify that you are an isolationist/consistent pacifist or hate America because using weak excuses and loaded words is a poor arguement against ideological opponents. Don't resort to the tankie strategy.

I mean, America in 1898-1946 was a regular, run-of-the-mill colonial empire. It had colonies and everything. This isn't "everything I dislike is Imperialism". It's "Roosevelt was party to a regime that outright made a point of "only we can do imperialism in Latin America" to the Europeans for which he is lauded. I'm neither an isolationist or pacifist (that's pretty much the farthest from what I am) nor do I hate the US.

[The Archregimancy]

It's very difficult to give an answer other than Lincoln; no other president of any party has successfully guided the country through a civil war, functionally ending de jure slavery in the process. And if he didn't immediately end de facto slavery, and certainly didn't end racism, he died before he could have any post-war impact on the former, and a quick look at current events in the United States suggests that the latter would defeat any president.

Eisenhower was probably the best 20th-century Republican, though like Grant his claim to greatness largely stems from events pre-dating his presidency.

Of Republican presidents in my adult lifetime, I think George H.W. Bush likely would have made a fine president in the 1970s; he perhaps became president 20 years too late, and perhaps didn't fully appreciate that his style of pragmatic consensus politics was increasingly out of fashion. Failing to adapt is, of course, a political failing; but as political failings go, it's more forgivable than many; and given what American politics has subsequently become, it's easy to be nostalgic about a Republican who valued pragmatic consensus politics.

Edit:
Also, to my mind Bush Sr. never broke his 'no new taxes' pledge; increasing existing taxes is not the same thing as introducing new taxes. And yes, I was living in the US at the time.