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ChatGPT: Trump is the 6th Most Socialist POTUS in last 100y
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Date: October 16th, 2025 9:07 AM Author: AZNgirl taking Dead Israeli Hostage on Date Is this winning, Birdshits? And in reality he shld be 4th cause Obama and Biden werent this socialist
U.S. Presidents Ranked by “Socialist-Like” Economic Policy (1925–2025) Rank President Era Key State-Intervention / Redistribution Actions Socialist-Likeness Summary 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–45) Great Depression / WWII • New Deal: massive public works (WPA, CCC), banking regulation, minimum wage, Social Security, unemployment insurance. • Federal agencies directly employed millions. • Agricultural price controls, government-set wages, gold confiscation. 🟥 Most socialist-like U.S. president in practice — large direct control of economy, redistribution, welfare creation. 2. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–69) Great Society / Cold War • Medicare & Medicaid created. • Federal aid to education, housing, civil rights enforcement. • War on Poverty (Head Start, food stamps expansion). 🟧 Major welfare expansion; not heavy on state ownership, but broad redistributive programs. 3. Harry S. Truman (1945–53) Post-WWII • Tried to nationalize steel during strike. • Maintained wartime economic controls initially. • Proposed national health insurance. • Expanded New Deal programs. 🟨 Leaned interventionist, though less successful politically; some attempted nationalizations. 4. Barack Obama (2009–17) Post-2008 Crisis • Affordable Care Act: major government-regulated health insurance. • Auto industry bailout (temporary gov ownership). • Dodd-Frank financial regulation. 🟩 “Soft socialism”: state-regulated markets, not state-owned; still heavily redistributive. 5. Joe Biden (2021–25) Post-COVID / Industrial Policy Era • Infrastructure Investment, CHIPS Act, IRA — major subsidies, industrial policy. • Partial student loan relief. • Increased social spending & green energy subsidies. 🟦 Expanded industrial policy and state subsidies, but still private-sector-based. 6. Donald Trump (2025–) “America First 2.0” Industrial Policy • Tariffs and price floors on Chinese imports. • Government buying shares in “strategic” companies (rare earths, semiconductors). • Industrial policy: domestic production mandates. • Not welfare-redistributive, but state-directive in economy. 🟪 Nationalist-industrial socialism: state uses market power, not welfare, to shape production. More corporatist than socialist. 7. Richard Nixon (1969–74) Stagflation / Cold War • Wage and price controls (1971) — direct intervention. • Created EPA, OSHA. • Expanded Social Security, food stamps. 🟫 Surprisingly interventionist for a Republican; temporary full control of prices/wages = notable socialist-like episode. 8. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–61) Post-War Conservatism • Kept New Deal structure intact. • Built interstate highway system (public works). ⬜ Moderate conservatism but accepted welfare state foundations. 9. Ronald Reagan (1981–89) Neoliberal Era • Deregulated, cut taxes, reduced welfare programs. • Anti-union (PATCO strike). 🟩 Least socialist-like — re-marketization of U.S. economy. 10. Calvin Coolidge / Herbert Hoover (1920s–31) Pre-Depression • Limited regulation, low taxes, laissez-faire. • Minimal state intervention. 🟩 Classical free-mark |