[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Progressive was duckspeak for communists in the early days.

So Roosevelt and the Bullmoose Party were communists?

[Henry Hnyellar]

No, just incredibly misguided. TR was a big gov statist.

[meadsjn]

Progressive was duckspeak for communists in the early days.

So Roosevelt and the Bullmoose Party were communists?

Yes, progressive Republicans followed the Trotsky model; progressive Democrats followed the Lenin model.

[Cicero]

Roosevelt was a good buddy of Uncle Joe Stalin. He had several Communist Party members high in his administration, but does not seem to have carried a card himself. Still, he did Stalin’s work for him.

Teddy Roosevelt was a bit early to be called a Communist, but he came out of that same cesspit of progressivism that the Communists emerged from. He was a very mixed bag; admirable in some ways, a big-time troublemaker in others.