re: #24 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

He was part of the Progressive movement, and his election allowed legislation that would be anathema to current “conservatives.”

A Bircher told me a while back that TR was “the first socialist president.” I said, “Huh? What?” and he explained that TR was the first to interfere with business on a large scale, in the form of the The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Yep, a law against poisoning people with rancid or aduterated food was the first step toward the Marxist hell in which we now live.