TR lived in a world of child labor, 10 hour workdays, railroad employees who were fired with no benefits if they were injured on the job, etc, etc,.
Not at ALL the situation that exists today.
TR was a great man and you have to judge him by the context of the times in which he was living, not by some nutjob analysis by Glenn Beck.
Some of what he did from a strictly Constitutional perspective was unorthodox, but again, judge the guy by his times, not by 21st socialist lunatics.
He was a great man.
That’s unacceptable. Woodrow Wilson also existed in those exact same times and I don’t expect you to cut him the same slack.
(Not that Wilson deserves slack. But neither does TR)
I don’t think you even read the text of the speech.
Your post is indicative evidence of why we’re unable to defeat progressives. We have people in our ranks who defend them.
Without a united front, they win. Progressivism wins.
Also seven day work-weeks back in TR’s day.
I’ve had occasion to do nine on, five off...
It was brutal; after 7 days on, I didn’t know what day it was...
The stuff TR thought and wrote about eugenics should chill you to the bone.