Who was the last Republican President that was not an incompetent sociopath?

[nkpolitics1212]

Bush 41?
Reagan?
Ford?
Eisenhower?
Coolidge?
Taft?
T. Roosevelt?
McKinley?
B. Harrison?
Arthur?
Garfield?
Hayes?
Grant?
A. Johnson?
Lincoln?
I did not include Bush43 and Nixon.

[PatrickforO]

1. Though you did not include him, I'd have to say Nixon is the most recent.

Now, he was a sociopath for sure, but not incompetent.

Teddy Roosevelt was fine - many national parks, the square deal. He was back when Republicans actually cared about America and Americans. Yes, he was an imperialist and that is ugly, but he was a child of his times.

Lincoln certainly was competent and was not a sociopath.

[hlthe2b]

2. Nixon was competent at least. Eisenhower gets the nod--neither sociopathic nor incompetent

Then again, he'd scarcely be a Republican in today's world.

[PatrickforO]

3. He was kind of mediocre, though, as a president.

But, yes, it would be a stretch to call him either incompetent or sociopathic. Have you read his 1963 essay titled, 'Why I'm a Republican.' I think most progressives today would identify with some of the things Ike said.

And he DID warn us about the MIC. I don't wear tinfoil hats or anything, but have always genuinely felt that the assassination of Kennedy was the MIC's coup d'etat. They got LBJ to run in the red and send 500K people to Nam. Kennedy wouldn't have done that.

Bobby later said that Jack Kennedy's biggest mistake was 'actually thinking he was president.'

Now it seems as if the MIC has us in a stranglehold.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Well he was kind of incompetent. Couldn't manage a simple break in.

And then couldn't cover it up worth a darn.

Other presidents have done far far worse and now every body loves them.
(Bush jr, I am looking at you.)

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Eisenhower is the safe bet.

Although I agree that Nixon was smart and competent. I'm not sure if paranoia and authoritarian makes someone a sociopath.

[SCantiGOP]

5. Democrats tried to get Ike as their candidate

My Dad said that most of his friends from WW2 days thought that Ike would run as a Dem after Truman’s term.

[uppityperson]

6. Ford was incompetent but not a sociopath.

[VMA131Marine]

8. Bush 43 looks like a saint compared to Trump

Even Darth Cheney might be an improvement

[SharonClark]

9. Trump is the first and hopefully the last.