Presidential Table Vol.7: Hands-Offers

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

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Given the leftist bias, the miserable failure Herbert Hoover is going to win.

[H. Ross Peron]

Reagan since he seems to have been rather more interventionist than Hoover and also not a protectionist.

[SWE]

The one who never committed high treason

[Deus Naturae]

...are you kidding me? Herbert Hoover was anything but a "hands-offer." Hoover was probably the most economically interventionist President up to that point in US history. He was responsible for the creation of massive distortive agricultural programs, corporate welfare programs, labor regulations, wasteful public works projects, and, of course, massive tax and tariff hikes. His terrible interventionist economic policies gave America the worst economic period in its entire history, and initiated what would eventually become the New Deal.

[ElectionsGuy]

Reagan, clearly.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Reagan, clearly.

[Meursault]

On a phone and can't see the poll, but I'm going to assume Harding is on the poll, and he should win because he's a top-tener and all the other likely choices (Cleveland, Coolidge, Reagan) were bad Presidents. Harding stumped for civil rights in the South; Reagan spoke for states' rights on the site of a lynching.

[Potatoe]

The one who never committed high treason

[SWE]

On a phone and can't see the poll, but I'm going to assume Harding is on the poll, and he should win because he's a top-tener and all the other likely choices (Cleveland, Coolidge, Reagan) were bad Presidents. Harding stumped for civil rights in the South; Reagan spoke for states' rights on the site of a lynching.

The options are Hoover and Reagan

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

On a phone and can't see the poll, but I'm going to assume Harding is on the poll, and he should win because he's a top-tener and all the other likely choices (Cleveland, Coolidge, Reagan) were bad Presidents. Harding stumped for civil rights in the South; Reagan spoke for states' rights on the site of a lynching.

Harding also laid the groundwork for the Great Depression, vetoed the Bonus Bill, and gambled away the White House china.

[Meursault]

Hoover doesn't really belong on this poll (although he most certainly was not "the most economically interventionist President up to that point", as the OP inanely claims; Lincoln's liberation of the slaves and printing of greenbacks earns him that distinction, with Grant's massive railroad subsidies a close second.).

[Meursault]

Err, Deus* Deus claimed Hoover to be the most interventionist President up to 1929. Which still isn't close to being right.

[Flake]

The one who never committed high treason

Did I miss something?

[MurrayBannerman]

Err, Deus* Deus claimed Hoover to be the most interventionist President up to 1929. Which still isn't close to being right.

Then who is it?

[Meursault]

Lincoln (who pursued a policy of massive inflation to pay for the War). Grant - who practically paid for the entire railroad system from the public funds - Harrison - who began Federal involvement with public schools - Roosevelt, and Taft (more monopolies broken up than any other President, including TR) were all at least comparably interventionist to Hoover. I know the Austrian orthodoxy that Hoover was antecedent only to the Antichrist in this regard - but it's a lie.

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[Goldwater]

Reagan, clearly.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]