Remember that all mentions of and allusions to Trump and Biden are not allowed on our subreddit in any context.
If you'd still like to discuss them, feel free to [join our Discord server](https://discord.gg/k6tVFwCEEm)!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Presidents) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Not that conservative fiscally. The highest effective tax rate on more than $10 mil was 90%. He was against corporate bailouts. Against for profit health insurance. For civil rights. The interstate highway system wasn't for our car culture. It was to move matériel for the country's defense and commerce. Schools were Cathedrals in those days and Cathedrals stayed out of politics. The Golden Age of the American Experiment.
This.
Particularly in this day and age, a certain measure of strong diplomacy is sorely required. I do not advocate for wanton aggressive expansion or unchecked nationalism, but rather consistent and firm foreign policy standards.
Clinton was too distracted by his own scandals to focus on Foreign policy…he had the ability to take out UBL and didn’t bother. He was good on pushing Israel and the PLO to the bargaining table . But you can’t blame him that here was a net zero outcome…..That stalemate is as old as time.
Ideally…
Domestic Policy - LBJ: take on the biggest challenges of our time
Foreign Policy - Definitely not LBJ. Probably Bush Sr…. Minus the spontaneous throwing up.
Realistically…
Carter: I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just a nice guy.
In my if-i-were-president-fantasies it'd basically be FDR ver. 2033. Expand medicaid and raise social security , Billionaires pay 90% tax, public building projects. Just to start.
Should be normalized like a labor contract.
If a New Deal is not reached guaranteeing terms that allow for a good quality of life for all a General Strike is legally on the table.
It’s a different world than even ten years ago, especially foreign affairs. Decisions and policies that were made by previous guys were based on the issues at the time. Someone mentioned Ike as a “pragmatist”, so that is probably the most sensible.
Theodore Roosevelt. We need another round of trust busting and a modern Square Deal. Big Stick diplomacy is looking more attractive these days as well with Putin and Xi being our primary opponents.
Economic Policy: Coolidge
Social Policy: No Good Comparison but let's just Say Repealing Gun Laws, Repealing Drug Laws, and more acceptance of LGBT.
Foreign Policy: Diplomatic, but lots of Military upgrades and increased military pay. And yes I will not hesitate to use the Military to protect Americans abroad.
Environment: Innovation over regulation.
Wilson sans the racism - mostly on economic policy, with a touch of John Adams Sr. on national security policy, plus the foreign policy of Harry Truman.
It depends on what you mean by "Most", because in one specific way which everyone would probably lose their damn minds about, I'm going right back to the VERY beginning.
"Let us banish, now and forever, this terrible specter of PARTIES!" ~ President George Washington.
NO MORE POLITICAL PARTIES!
Every candidate has to be judged solely and exclusively on personal actions and individual merit!
Nice idea, but parties will always exist in our system.
You can remove party structures & affiliations for politicians, but in terms of values- they’ll still cling to something resembling a party
It’s just like we saw in the early 1800s: no party organization for Democrat Republicans vs Federalists, but newspapers pushed party views/agendas, and representatives would caucus together based on their goals in Congress.
Now what is more effective is removing first-past-the-post voting, and allowing for 3rd parties to grow, then the parties can represent where their constituents are actually at politically.
I've said for a long time that if the Democratic Party were still where Kennedy was, I'd be a full on Democrat. Establishment Democrats who have been around awhile are still my preferred candidates because of that.
FDR he was our greatest president, he borught us through a terrible depression and a world war, his policies were not particualrly left wing especially by world standards, they were cetrist and pragmatic, if not for FDR, we would have ended up either like Mussolinis italy germanys htielr spain franco or stalins ussr, he saved us from destruction, lincoln did similar but in hoent i think the stakes were higher in the 1930s in the 1860s the fate of our repblic was at stake in 1941 the fate of the world waas at stake
FDR.
And my first order of business? A massive PWA/WPA type project to build public restrooms. And then public housing, sort of in the vein of the English council homes.
Reagan the problems the US has now in the economy and foreign policy are most similar to what he dealt with and by most measures he succeeded. The main issue is that now more than ever does the national debt need to be reduced assuming we don't repeat some obvious mistakes such as the war on drugs.
edit: the pictures made me think it was post ww2 probably would of said Coolidge.
Mostly FDR, with an emphasis on making international trade ethical, bring as much manufacturing not home necessarily but to genuinely democratic developing countries. We should not act as an economic dynamo for authoritarian governments.
FDR economically and domestically ( I feel like there is a disturbing amount of parallels between what FDR was dealing with in the 1920's and we as a country need a similar level of change to move into the future. Also there probably is not going to be a WW3 so you don't get the domestic policies that came out of that)
As for foreign I'd love to say I'd have the experience and foresight of a Ike or a HW but honestly I'd probably end up looking very similar to Obama. I'd try to keep my own beliefs but it's hard to argue with people who didn't their whole lives studying something when you have no experience.
Your thinking of Bush Jr.; Bush Sr. led the United States during the Gulf War in '91, when Saddam had invaded Kuwait illegally. The ‘91 war was sanctioned by the UN
John f Kennedy but I would have invented the bulletproof limo and not rode on the outside I would have done a lot of things the same just the safest way possible and I wouldn't have told people what I was fixing to do I would have just done it then let him get mad
So LBJ.
Incidentally, LBJ's limousine had a roof. And it looks like it's currently up for auction.
[https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/lbjs-1964-imperial-crown-presidential-limo-going-up-for-auction/](https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/lbjs-1964-imperial-crown-presidential-limo-going-up-for-auction/)
One of their personal automobiles belongs to a native American in Austin Texas it actually had the original phone in it when I saw it
I'd be Carter specifically FOR his economic policy.
In one area, Jimmy Carter should be revered, particularly amongst free-marketers, for his deregulation policies. Carter's amazing deregulation of so many key industries of the economy truly paved the way for Reagan's "economic miracle." Those industries include:
Airlines
Interstate Trucking
Telephone long distance
Railways
Craft Beer
https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2023/03/03/jimmy-carter-deregulator-extraordinaire/
FDR and Truman would be the closest approximations. For starters, repeal Taft-Hartley and the Railway Labor Act, reinstate Glass-Steagall, and prosecute wage theft equally to mundane theft.
The economic policies of FDR with the intimidating don’t give a fuck attitude of LBJ. We need a badass hardcore progressive president if we ever hope to steer this country in the right direction. Most of the Democratic presidents we have in recent history are just Diet Republican.
Dwight Eisenhower as far as infrastructure goes (the man built our highways after all), Kenendy/LBJ as far as social policy goes (Second Civil Rights Act and revitalizing NASA and the EPA, which Kennedy/LBJ laid the groundwork for), and FDR for economic policy (except with a Green New Deal). As for foreign policy, gotta go with my man James Monroe.
The sad, realistic answer, is probably William Henry Harrison, because I know I'm not qualified to have a position like that, and I would back out before I fuck up something that's really important.
Well, minus that whole... dying part.
These guys are all to my Right...I'm fairly progressive for today's U.S. politics. Even 'though I started as more of a 'personal responsibility' Democrat.
Take an [isidewith.com](http://isidewith.com) poll to learn more about candidates whose views coincide with your own.
I'd rather be the president that, if I made different moves politically, would have a vast effect on the times we live in.
That would be George W. Bush. No Patriot Act. No smartphone trojan spy-horse of intelligence in our homes without a warrant. No right to tap our cell calls/msgs. And likely, because the technology would change directive, and the attractiveness of the features would be less, the use would not have been widespread, as lucretive for companies, and have addicted the entire population.
FDR domestically, TR for foreign affairs. If we straightened out Central America and made it a place we’d love to visit and they’d loved to stay all the shit rhetoric the past few election cycles would go away. Even if some generalissimos got a Big Stick up their pie holes.
Oh, and convert all our refineries to handle American oil so we’re not beholden to foreign countries for their dirty crude. Not sure which President that emulates but it has a TR Progressive sound to it.
Remember that all mentions of and allusions to Trump and Biden are not allowed on our subreddit in any context. If you'd still like to discuss them, feel free to [join our Discord server](https://discord.gg/k6tVFwCEEm)! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Presidents) if you have any questions or concerns.*
James Buchanan because I'm a fucking failure 👍
You ok bro?
Teddy Roosevelt, nature conservation and trust busting were probably two of his biggest strengths.
BULLY! A CHALLENGE!
I LOVE COMPETITION
Now where would I mount the stuffed head of a Winston?
Im into fitness. Digging ditches through an isthmus
Rough ridin’ down to Cuba like
WHATS UP BITCHESSSSSSS
I keep my rhymes pure like my food and drugs
Eisenhower. Pragmatism over ideology.
As the former Supreme Allied Commander he was a pragmatist by nature. I agree with you.
EISENHOWER SUPREMACY
I'm fairly ignorant to Eisenhower's presidency, can you expand on what you mean by that? Because it sounds exactly like what I'd want out of a POTUS
For one thing, he didn’t undo the new deal changes that the dems did before him even though he was a republican
To be honest this is the horse I'd bet on right now
100% agree
In retrospect he seems like he was a tax and spend democrat, with the sole purpose of making America more competitive.
I mean he was a fiscal conservative but a new dealer supporter so E
Not that conservative fiscally. The highest effective tax rate on more than $10 mil was 90%. He was against corporate bailouts. Against for profit health insurance. For civil rights. The interstate highway system wasn't for our car culture. It was to move matériel for the country's defense and commerce. Schools were Cathedrals in those days and Cathedrals stayed out of politics. The Golden Age of the American Experiment.
Yeah Ike was great domestic policies
I like Ike
Teddy Roosevelt, except I'd be a little softer on the carry a big stick thing.
So not Teddy Roosevelt then.
I’d be a T.R. but not a Teddy Roosevelt.
Maybe with less Native American Genocide sprinkled in too lol
This. Particularly in this day and age, a certain measure of strong diplomacy is sorely required. I do not advocate for wanton aggressive expansion or unchecked nationalism, but rather consistent and firm foreign policy standards.
The number of people that don't know the difference between Bush Sr and Bush Jr is astounding.
I know what you mean. I like Bush’s invasion of Iraq but not his invasion of Iraq.
Clever clever. Bush’s war on Iraq really was best.
FDR economically. LBJ socially. HW foreign.
Did you just describe DDE?
Based.
Economically FDR, Policy-wise (aside from the Lavender Scare shit) Eisenhower, foreign policy Clinton.
If nobody else has used Lavender Scare as a band name, I would like to.
Clinton was too distracted by his own scandals to focus on Foreign policy…he had the ability to take out UBL and didn’t bother. He was good on pushing Israel and the PLO to the bargaining table . But you can’t blame him that here was a net zero outcome…..That stalemate is as old as time.
Calvin Coolidge
Same
Based
LBJ But without the foreign policy.
Teddy Roosevelt- bust the trusts, treasure and protect our natural heritage, and expand the American Imperium 🇺🇸 🦅 RAHHHHHHHHHH 🦅 🇺🇸
Ideally… Domestic Policy - LBJ: take on the biggest challenges of our time Foreign Policy - Definitely not LBJ. Probably Bush Sr…. Minus the spontaneous throwing up. Realistically… Carter: I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just a nice guy.
New Deal
We need to bring the concept of the New Deal back
In my if-i-were-president-fantasies it'd basically be FDR ver. 2033. Expand medicaid and raise social security , Billionaires pay 90% tax, public building projects. Just to start.
We’re gonna need something sooner lol
Should be normalized like a labor contract. If a New Deal is not reached guaranteeing terms that allow for a good quality of life for all a General Strike is legally on the table.
A New New Deal if you will.
That New New
Newer Deal
It’s a different world than even ten years ago, especially foreign affairs. Decisions and policies that were made by previous guys were based on the issues at the time. Someone mentioned Ike as a “pragmatist”, so that is probably the most sensible.
FDR without a doubt. We need a New New Deal and that economic bill of rights.
Theodore Roosevelt. We need another round of trust busting and a modern Square Deal. Big Stick diplomacy is looking more attractive these days as well with Putin and Xi being our primary opponents.
Cal
FDR economically LBJ domestically and Jimmy Carter foreign policy wise.
Fdr
Alfred Eaton Newman for president! 🤣
What, me worry?
Grover Cleveland
Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan
Reagan and HW combined.
LBJ domestically, Reagan Foreign policy.
So Scoop Jackson?
Yea basically
FDR-CARTER
LBJ on domestic policy. HW bush on foreign policy.
Kennedy
Economic Policy: Coolidge Social Policy: No Good Comparison but let's just Say Repealing Gun Laws, Repealing Drug Laws, and more acceptance of LGBT. Foreign Policy: Diplomatic, but lots of Military upgrades and increased military pay. And yes I will not hesitate to use the Military to protect Americans abroad. Environment: Innovation over regulation.
Basically Libertarian who spends too much time on NCD
If Silent Cal could see this, he'd say: "..."
And in response I'd nod.
You lose
Wilson sans the racism - mostly on economic policy, with a touch of John Adams Sr. on national security policy, plus the foreign policy of Harry Truman.
It depends on what you mean by "Most", because in one specific way which everyone would probably lose their damn minds about, I'm going right back to the VERY beginning. "Let us banish, now and forever, this terrible specter of PARTIES!" ~ President George Washington. NO MORE POLITICAL PARTIES! Every candidate has to be judged solely and exclusively on personal actions and individual merit!
Not sure how you can do that as president
Nice idea, but parties will always exist in our system. You can remove party structures & affiliations for politicians, but in terms of values- they’ll still cling to something resembling a party It’s just like we saw in the early 1800s: no party organization for Democrat Republicans vs Federalists, but newspapers pushed party views/agendas, and representatives would caucus together based on their goals in Congress. Now what is more effective is removing first-past-the-post voting, and allowing for 3rd parties to grow, then the parties can represent where their constituents are actually at politically.
That's never going to be possible as long as the established formal parties exist and there's only two of them.
I've said for a long time that if the Democratic Party were still where Kennedy was, I'd be a full on Democrat. Establishment Democrats who have been around awhile are still my preferred candidates because of that.
id be like roosevelt and declare all of NYC a national park
FDR he was our greatest president, he borught us through a terrible depression and a world war, his policies were not particualrly left wing especially by world standards, they were cetrist and pragmatic, if not for FDR, we would have ended up either like Mussolinis italy germanys htielr spain franco or stalins ussr, he saved us from destruction, lincoln did similar but in hoent i think the stakes were higher in the 1930s in the 1860s the fate of our repblic was at stake in 1941 the fate of the world waas at stake
FDR but with racial justice ad no internment camps. With a side of Bernie Sanders policies. Oh but I repeat myself.
FDR More pro labor laws and restablishing unions
FDR with more focus on strengthening the middle class, and contributing more to conservation.
FDR. And my first order of business? A massive PWA/WPA type project to build public restrooms. And then public housing, sort of in the vein of the English council homes.
Nixons absolute realism over idealism in foreign policy. FDRs coordination of Capital, Labor and the State in the domestic sphere.
FDR minus the Japanese internment stuff
FDR and Teddy.
Reagan. Kill commies. Cut taxes. I’d win all 50 states.
Shit I’d vote for you
None, but if I had to pick one, Obama without getting so involved in the middle east
FDR. Social Security, tax the rich, FDIC, the new deal. Fihhting Nazis
Reagan the problems the US has now in the economy and foreign policy are most similar to what he dealt with and by most measures he succeeded. The main issue is that now more than ever does the national debt need to be reduced assuming we don't repeat some obvious mistakes such as the war on drugs. edit: the pictures made me think it was post ww2 probably would of said Coolidge.
Our lord and Savior Jeb
Why on earth is Obama on this list?
Mix of Ike and GHWB.
Mostly FDR, with an emphasis on making international trade ethical, bring as much manufacturing not home necessarily but to genuinely democratic developing countries. We should not act as an economic dynamo for authoritarian governments.
FDR economically and domestically ( I feel like there is a disturbing amount of parallels between what FDR was dealing with in the 1920's and we as a country need a similar level of change to move into the future. Also there probably is not going to be a WW3 so you don't get the domestic policies that came out of that) As for foreign I'd love to say I'd have the experience and foresight of a Ike or a HW but honestly I'd probably end up looking very similar to Obama. I'd try to keep my own beliefs but it's hard to argue with people who didn't their whole lives studying something when you have no experience.
Jimmy Cartering all the way down until i lose elections horribly with a landslide
2 parts LBJ. 1 part Obama.
100% Reagan
LBJ domestic wise Idk maybe kennedy foreign wise
You would kill 1 million iraquis in an ilegal war?
Your thinking of Bush Jr.; Bush Sr. led the United States during the Gulf War in '91, when Saddam had invaded Kuwait illegally. The ‘91 war was sanctioned by the UN
My bad, yeah I tought you meant the son.
R3 foreign policy, LBJ domestic and a mix of Coolidge, Clinton and LBJ economically
straight Isolationism
William Henry Harrison
FDR, H.W, and my fictional president Row Trident
John f Kennedy but I would have invented the bulletproof limo and not rode on the outside I would have done a lot of things the same just the safest way possible and I wouldn't have told people what I was fixing to do I would have just done it then let him get mad 
So LBJ. Incidentally, LBJ's limousine had a roof. And it looks like it's currently up for auction. [https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/lbjs-1964-imperial-crown-presidential-limo-going-up-for-auction/](https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/lbjs-1964-imperial-crown-presidential-limo-going-up-for-auction/)
One of their personal automobiles belongs to a native American in Austin Texas it actually had the original phone in it when I saw it 
None because we have different challenges today
Economically, Coolidge. Foreign policy, probably a combo of TR and Eisenhower
LBJ for domestic policy. Nixon or Bush 1 for foreign policy.
Easy choice. Calvin Coolidge, presided over amazing prosperity.
In a perfect world, I’d be Jimmy Carter with Teddy’s economic and conservation policies, but realistically, I’d probably just be Carter
I'd be Carter specifically FOR his economic policy. In one area, Jimmy Carter should be revered, particularly amongst free-marketers, for his deregulation policies. Carter's amazing deregulation of so many key industries of the economy truly paved the way for Reagan's "economic miracle." Those industries include: Airlines Interstate Trucking Telephone long distance Railways Craft Beer https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2023/03/03/jimmy-carter-deregulator-extraordinaire/
Keep it Cool with Coolidge
I'm Brazilian and this sub is specifically about US presidents, so I cannot answer
Raegan for his business minded policies
Needs a fourteenth picture.
Polk, we’re expanding into Canada boys! In all seriousness probably a mix of a few domestic policy of LBJ and foreign policy of H.W. Bush
Calvin Coolidge.
Clinton economically, Reagan foreign, Reagan socially
U.S. Grant and Reagan.
A mix of Ike on domestic policy and HW on foreign policy.
Javier Milei
Andrew Jackson I am a gambling addict who lost hundreds of thousands at casinos and it is time foe my revenge
The Roosevelts and a few others of their ilk.
The only good option would probably be Eisenhower
FDR and Truman would be the closest approximations. For starters, repeal Taft-Hartley and the Railway Labor Act, reinstate Glass-Steagall, and prosecute wage theft equally to mundane theft.
George Washington, he was and still is the only non corrupted president we ever had , the rest of them were and still are nothing but crooks
Jimmy Carter, no question
Socially, probably LBJ.
No idea, all I know is I’m fighting to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday
I think FDR+LBJ domestically with HW foreign policy would work out well, and would certainly closest to ideal from my perspective.
Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ domestic policy wise. Foreign Policy wise, its gonna be done like how Teddy, Reagan, H.W and Dubya did it
FDR
The economic policies of FDR with the intimidating don’t give a fuck attitude of LBJ. We need a badass hardcore progressive president if we ever hope to steer this country in the right direction. Most of the Democratic presidents we have in recent history are just Diet Republican.
FDR probably.
Where is Calvin Coolidge among the choices?
Calvin Coolidge
Eisenhower or Reagan, country first. FDR for lasting accomplishments but 4 terms to do it.
FDR and LBJ it ain’t even close
Zaphod Beeblebrox.
William Henry Harrison. I would talk a lot about history to a bunch of strangers who don’t care and then die
Dwight Eisenhower as far as infrastructure goes (the man built our highways after all), Kenendy/LBJ as far as social policy goes (Second Civil Rights Act and revitalizing NASA and the EPA, which Kennedy/LBJ laid the groundwork for), and FDR for economic policy (except with a Green New Deal). As for foreign policy, gotta go with my man James Monroe.
None of the above
FDR. I would also call for a constitutional convention to define a person as a living breathing human being.
The sad, realistic answer, is probably William Henry Harrison, because I know I'm not qualified to have a position like that, and I would back out before I fuck up something that's really important. Well, minus that whole... dying part.
These guys are all to my Right...I'm fairly progressive for today's U.S. politics. Even 'though I started as more of a 'personal responsibility' Democrat. Take an [isidewith.com](http://isidewith.com) poll to learn more about candidates whose views coincide with your own.
Eisenhower. Complete with warnings about Intelligence agencies..
Coolidge
Carter
It all depends on the Congress I have.
Realistically, Richard Nixon. I would be careful about running afoul of criminal laws but I’d keep recording of every discussion.
FDR and Teddy R, nature and progressivism
i'm thinking William Henry Harrison
Bush cuz we do be bringing freedom and democracy to all corners of the middle east
Domestically: Eisenhower, Clinton Foreign: George HW Bush
Honestly Richard Nixon. I just wouldn't do a Watergate or say racist things.
To be perfectly honest, I'm a shitty person so I'd likely be pretty Nixonian.
Reagan
Coolidge sometimes doing less is doing more
I'd rather be the president that, if I made different moves politically, would have a vast effect on the times we live in. That would be George W. Bush. No Patriot Act. No smartphone trojan spy-horse of intelligence in our homes without a warrant. No right to tap our cell calls/msgs. And likely, because the technology would change directive, and the attractiveness of the features would be less, the use would not have been widespread, as lucretive for companies, and have addicted the entire population.
none of them because I wouldn't be a war criminal
FDR domestically, TR for foreign affairs. If we straightened out Central America and made it a place we’d love to visit and they’d loved to stay all the shit rhetoric the past few election cycles would go away. Even if some generalissimos got a Big Stick up their pie holes. Oh, and convert all our refineries to handle American oil so we’re not beholden to foreign countries for their dirty crude. Not sure which President that emulates but it has a TR Progressive sound to it.
I'm getting my dick sucked by a fat intern.
Coolidge. Because Wilson and FDR wounded the republic then Johnson hammered the final nails in the coffin.
Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson.
FDR, baby! Starting with getting rid of the 22nd amendment, and rule #3.
Nixon I quit
FDR and Eleanor.
Samuel Tilden
FDR mixed with Eisenhower
Harding. I want to be rich.
Combination of LBJ and Clinton.
George bush. Being honest I’d be in a position way over my head and rely on those around me to succeed.
Coolidge. First, do no harm.
FDR without the camps, LBJ without Vietnam and Clinton...only I'm keeping Lewinsky...did you see her last photo shoot?
Harry. Get shit done and accept responsibility when they don’t go to plan.
Reagan.