Teddy Roosevelt was my kinda Republican.
He was too cute by half with the whole Gunboat Diplomacy thing, but three things:
1. His forceful attitude on pushing back against corporations - the necessity of regulation in order to keep too much power and too much money from consolidating in too few hands.
2. Trying to balance the interests internal to the US against US National Interests outside our borders.
3. He was a man of his times. That doesn't mean some of the shitty things he did - or were done on his watch - are excusable, or that anybody should approve of them now.
We muddle thru and we stumble forward.
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