He was a progressive who expanded the Federal Gov't's power, which many think led to the 16th and 17th Amendment Federal Gov't power grabs, but you do you.
I'll give him credit for some of what he did, but not a pass for his flaws.
He was a progressive Republican, some would define him as an Americanist or as its know today America 1st. Using the federal government to address issues the states can't bring themselves to address in the numbers needed is what it takes some times. But his fight against crony capitalism, fighting off the last European power still lurking in areas the U.S considered its region of influence, and his fight against corruption are the exact things we should want any President should do. How politicians after used his actions to advance their own agendas including expanding the fed power. Progress is a key component of America, today's progressive movement is a bastardized version of what people like him actually advocated and Teddy probably woukdve used the rough riders to put down
“On the other hand, it is in those professions where our people have striven hardest to mold themselves in conventional European forms that they have succeeded least; and this holds true to the present day, the failure being of course most conspicuous where the man takes up his abode in Europe; where he becomes a second-rate European, because he is over-civilized, over- sensitive, over-refined, and has lost the hardihood and manly courage by which alone he can conquer in the keen struggle of our national life. Be it remembered, too, that this same being does not really become a European; he only ceases being an American, and becomes nothing. . . .”
Teddy is what the left would call “toxic masculine.”
He was a progressive who expanded the Federal Gov't's power, which many think led to the 16th and 17th Amendment Federal Gov't power grabs, but you do you.
I'll give him credit for some of what he did, but not a pass for his flaws.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.hudson.org/content/researchattachments/attachment/1216/theodore_roosevelt_true_americanism.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj63YaMqMrvAhXrTN8KHdt1C5cQFjAAegQIAxAC&usg=AOvVaw23MyCaSUAxPlbNku9kIHBm&cshid=1616636732091
He was a progressive Republican, some would define him as an Americanist or as its know today America 1st. Using the federal government to address issues the states can't bring themselves to address in the numbers needed is what it takes some times. But his fight against crony capitalism, fighting off the last European power still lurking in areas the U.S considered its region of influence, and his fight against corruption are the exact things we should want any President should do. How politicians after used his actions to advance their own agendas including expanding the fed power. Progress is a key component of America, today's progressive movement is a bastardized version of what people like him actually advocated and Teddy probably woukdve used the rough riders to put down
“On the other hand, it is in those professions where our people have striven hardest to mold themselves in conventional European forms that they have succeeded least; and this holds true to the present day, the failure being of course most conspicuous where the man takes up his abode in Europe; where he becomes a second-rate European, because he is over-civilized, over- sensitive, over-refined, and has lost the hardihood and manly courage by which alone he can conquer in the keen struggle of our national life. Be it remembered, too, that this same being does not really become a European; he only ceases being an American, and becomes nothing. . . .”
Teddy is what the left would call “toxic masculine.”
We need more of this energy.