Conservative policies of DEM presidents and liberal policies of REP presidents

[buritobr]

Of course, the "liberal Eisenhower" and the "conservative Kennedy" are myths, as we discussed in other thread. But we can make some cherry picking to create these myths because there were some conservative policies of democratic presidents and liberal policies of republican presidents.

Some examples:

FD Roosevelt: didn't try to end racial segregation, stoped the countercyclical policies in 1937, causing the second depression

Truman: created the Truman Doctrine, starting the Cold War, started the US involvement in the Korea War

Eisenhower: kept the 90% top income tax rate, used federal troops against segregation in Arkansas, didn't side with UK, France and Israel in the Suez Crisis, had a good relation with Nikita Khrushchev

Kennedy: traveled to Berlin after the building of the wall and gave a strong anticommunist speech, took a very hard line position in the Cuban missiles crises, cut taxes

LB Johnson: started the US involvement in the Vietnam War, supported the military coup in Brazil

Nixon: started the affirmative action, created environmental regulation for automobiles, said "we are all keynesians", brough back the troops from Vietnam, started the SALT with the USSR, signed the agreement with China


Ford: did not oppose Roe vs. Wade, signed the education for handicapped children act, kept the SALT, entered into the Helsinki Accords

Carter: deregulated the airline and rail industries, nominated Paul Volcker for the FED, supported the fundamentalist muslim terrorists in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion

Reagan: subsided the farmers, used state intervention in order to help the American automobile manufacturers in the competition against the Japanese ones

GHW Bush: raised the taxes, signed the immigration act, was the least pro-Israel US president

Bill Clinton: invited the authors of "reinventing government" to be his advisors, said that "big government is over", deregulated the banks

GW Bush: reacted to the 2001 crisis in a keynesian way, increased the spending in welfare programs

Obama: reduced the size of the government after the increase in 2009, was more tolerant to the Honduras 2009 coup than European conservative leaders like Merkel and Sarkozy, allowed espionage against left-wing governments in Latin America

Trump: before the primaries, he was considered to be more left-wing than na average republican, but not now


Do you agree with this list? Do you know some more items to add?

[buritobr]

Was the anti-soviet Truman Doctrine considered liberal?