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The fact that most Americans think this is what a progressive looks like shows how fucked we are.
Teddy Roosevelt is most American's idea of a progressive
Donald Trump Jr. is our most progressive politician and once all the megafauna is extinct it will no longer be possible to be progressive
Donald Trump is the megafauna, he is tragically the last remaining endling of the North American Woods Ape, Bigfoot himself.
He did give everyone money. That is the most direct action anyone has taken to help the US people in a generation or so.
that was his dad
My main cultural knowledge of Teddy Roosevelt is the extremely weird hard on old Cracked had for the guy
Dude regularly touted the sort of rhetoric we would call 'White Genocide' today. Shaming white women who didn't want to have children and stuff like that.
He was a jock and a bully and people do enjoy that he would occasionally bully upper class people. That was cool but it was simply downstream from it him being terrible to everyone
Hell of Presidents has an episode or two on him