The Roaring Conservative ’20s: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

Ask any number of conservative leaders when was the greatest period of conservatism in the United States, and they’ll typically give you one of two answers — depending on who you’re asking. The talk radio crowd will tell you it was the Reagan ’80s, giving you a handful of quotes and speeches from the Great Communicator, while assuring you how much greater and more patriotic America was in those days. Ask the writers and thinkers of the movement, and many will point to the Roaring ’20s, using the period more as an example of successful small government economic policy than the sainthood of one individual. The 1920s was a period that saw three presidents elected to office — all Republicans, all elected by massive landslides, all perceived as business-friendly, and all controversial and usually maligned by historians. All three saw incredibly different perceptions of their presidencies play out for their contemporaries. <a href="https://medium.com/s/conservative-roots/the-roaring-conservative-20s-harding-coolidge-and-hoover-9c843239c6d3">Read More</a>