[1010RD]

TR the trust buster. I thought you were pro-business?

[JasonC]

I am pro business. And between TR and JP Morgan, I'll take JP Morgan. But the rest of TR was great and even much of the anti-monoploy stuff was necessary - when that is what it actually was.

As for why I'd still take Morgan over TR, the reason is TR was grandstanding for the rubes instead of just trying to change policy on the ground. Morgan said "if we have done anything wrong, just send your man round to see my man and we will fix it." A perfectly sensible business attitude toward the entire thing. But TR didn't want to fix it, he wanted to stop it, as he put it - and to be seen smacking a rich banker.

But TR built the navy. We are the great power we are today because men like Morgan built up US industry and men like TR used it to make us a great power. To me the republican party in the home of both things. If they ever truly decide they can't live with each other and prefer to smack each other around instead, then we won't be a great power anymore.