Were Landon, Wilkie and Dewey more conservative than Eisenhower?

[buritobr]

Paul Krugman wrote that the Republicans went back to the White House only after they have accepted the New Deal.
Do you agree?

[The Mikado]

For Landon and Dewey, at least, absolutely.

Wilkie is very hard to pin down for a number of reasons.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Not in any clear sense, no.

The really politically popular aspects of the New Deal such as Social Security were not fundamentally challenged by any of these candidates. Their campaigns were focused against things like high taxes  and production controls.

[MIKESOWELL]

i would say that Landon and Dewey were more conservative. Willkie, I would guess was in the realm as ike, maybe a bit more progressive.

[Kingpoleon]

Dewey was far more modernistic and urban. Willkie, no. Landon, definitely.

Dewey may have been a bit more anti-rural subsidies, but a bit more socially progressive.

In short:
Willkie, no.
Dewey, mostly no.
Landon, vastly yes.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Landon would obviously have killed the New Deal.  Dewey would have left a majority of it intact but would have gone hard after farm subsidies and the NLRA.  I doubt Willkie would have tried to repeal anything Ike didn't.  

Huh? Landon admired FDR and accepted most of the New Deal (he was later publicly backing LBJ's programs). I just can't see him rolling that back. It would be diffrent, but not to that degree.

[President Johnson]

Landon and Dewey likely equal, Willkie was more liberal.

[RINO Tom]

Landon and Dewey likely equal, Willkie was more liberal.

Your impression that Willkie was a liberal is odd.  It was to varying degrees, but every single GOP nominee from Landon to Romney has been campaigning on scaling back aspects of the New Deal.

[Indy Texas]

Landon and Dewey likely equal, Willkie was more liberal.

Your impression that Willkie was a liberal is odd.  It was to varying degrees, but every single GOP nominee from Landon to Romney has been campaigning on scaling back aspects of the New Deal.

And, in recent years, they've even begun campaigning on scaling back aspects of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency (Department of the Interior, FDA, direct election of senators, federal management of land and natural resources).

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Landon yes
Dewey no
Wilkie probably no, but he was a Donald Trump type, hard to pin down.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Eisenhower was the archetypal postwar Establishment conservative.