Which of the last 5 republican presidents was the most successful?

[Anonymous]

Donald Trump

George W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

Ronald Reagan

Gerald Ford

[BCA6010]

It's Trump and not very close. Reagan is the obvious second argument but for all intents and purposes, he was pursuing a very similar agenda under loosely similar circumstances but wasn't nearly as effective. Furthermore, many of our societal problems today are a direct result of the Reagan administration, though this is often ignored due to Ronald being venerated as the GOP's golden calf. I'm willing to bet that about 20-30 years from now, Republicans will be erroneously claiming to "yearn for the party of Trump" just like they lie about it more recently for the party of Reagan - the reality is that Reagan had very tenuous support from his own party at the time too, and they only revere him now because he was popular.

Bush Senior would be #3, but that's largely because he was riding Reagan's coattails, and gets credit for arguably the best wartime management that the US has ever seen. Despite being fairly successful for a one-tern president, he will likely be forgotten for much else.

Bush Junior and Ford may as well be tied because they both suck. Bush bent over and gave what's now called "the deep state" everything it wanted to the point it was a mostly unnoticeable transition into Obama, and Ford was weak, probably the single most inconsequential president we've had in the last century. In fact, under Bush Junior, it's pretty obvious that the State Department was actually calling the shots even to the point of undermining anything the president did that they didn't approve of, but I think that due to the average voter's ignorance and apathy regarding foreign affairs, almost everyone missed this at least until later in the Obama years when people started questioning why we were getting involved in Egypt, Libya, and Syria.

[OneViewpoint]

It's like asking which lame horse almost finished the race best.

Top score - useless. Gerald Ford.

Runner up - not brainless. GHW Bush

2nd Runner up Economic moron - Reagan (omics)

1st Runner Up brainless and weak - G Dubyuh Bush (weapons of mass destruction)

Bottom score - destroying the US economy, TWICE. Orange Jesus, Commander in Chief Bone Spurs, The World Champion Pathological Liar, and the Man-Baby without equal - Donald J tRump.

[Dongie]

Man, you are one ignorant, nasty liberal. Oh, right, you all are!

[OneViewpoint]

@Dongie ,

Butthurt baby boy? Those are your heroes. Losers one and all. Maybe make some better choices.

[Dongie]

Nah, no heroes except Jesus Christ. I don't much care for those liberal sheep's in wolf's clothing. But RR & DJT are a pair of fine Americans.

[OneViewpoint]

@Dongie ,

Oh goodie. My favorite magic invisible sky fairy is Zeus. That whole lightning bolt thing is way cooler than some guy who got nailed to a piece of wood by some rowdy Romans.

[Dongie]

To the untrained eye of the heathen, me lad!

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

We’re still paying for shit Reagan did. Everyone after him just followed in his footsteps of disaster-making. It’s all pandering bullshit to promise tax cuts while praising god. The last real republican was fucking Eisenhower. Every republican after him was a fucking joke.

[Anonymous]

Trump is clearly the worst of those but when you're the worst president in history, it doesn't matter who you put up with him.

[abc3643]

Reagan was the most successful. But that success came at the price of creating the truly fucked up US and world that we have today. Even Saint Ronnie wouldn't approve of Trump.

Too bad you didn't include "the last 6 Republican Presidents". Eisenhower was a very good President. Eisenhower is the Republican that Republicans should idolize over Ronnie or, especially, Trump. Eisenhower is the Anti-Trump.

[abc3643]

*7 not 6. Although, believe it or not, Nixon was a decent President despite escalating the Vietnam War and letting his demons get the best of him. Nixon was a genius in terms of foreign policy. He could have been a great President.

[Iron_Man]

Ronald Reagan he was very successful. We didn’t Have any problems, Everything was smooth he just took care of business

[abc3643]

We had problems. You were just too young to remember them.

[glennos89]

I believe they where all good in terrorizing other countries with endless warfare and genocide

[Dongie]

Eh, whatever it takes.

[AviatorTom]

Reagan. Trump might be, but he still has work to do.

[Anonymous]

Trump is easily the best president the US has ever had. He puts the welfare of AMERICANS first, and the hateful, lying leftist lunatics can’t stand it! Well, get used to it cry babies! You guys have completely screwed yourselves. It’ll be a long time until there’s another democrat in the White House.

[msc545]

Probably Reagan, who was a filthy corrupt scumbag, but managed to hide most of it, except of course the Iran-Contra scandal. The rest were outright corrupt criminals.

[NatalieKeller95]

1. trump, 2. trump, 3. trump, 4. trump, 5. trump

[Dongie]

So far it's Reagan but Trump still has over 3.75 years to go. And I expect him to surpass RR.

[DrPepper12]

I would need a definition of success before I even attempted that.

[Dongie]

Positive for the country.

[msc545]

@Dongie None of them.

[Dongie]

Why are you talking to me? You have me blocked.

[msc545]

@Dongie you are not blocked by me.

[Dongie]

And I've not blocked you. Hummm...

[Dongie]

O guess you see me fine. I can't see you until I hit the reply button. Then if you've spoken in that area I can see you.

[msc545]

@Dongie I can see everything you write, no worries.

[Dongie]

I have to hit reply, then back my keyboard out, then read your comment. I can do this with all blocked people. But I've not had to do it with a person that isn't blocked.

[DrPepper12]

None

[Dargil]

Trump without doubt.

[SmokinAces2000]

Yikes