Americans Are Rediscovering Coolidge
By the Editors
In recent days, a governor, a historian, and an economist have pointed to Calvin Coolidge as a model for our age:
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida warns about the dangers of politics as entertainment, invoking Coolidge’s 1930 observation that “the government cannot be run successfully by substituting the power of entertainment for the power of accomplishment.”
In First Things, historian Sean McMeekin argues that Coolidge’s domestic and foreign policy offer instructive examples for the current moment.
Economist Jeffery L. Degner of the American Institute for Economic Research contends that the federal government “has completely forgotten the path to prosperity that Coolidge clearly demonstrated.”