That was not a attack line.
But this is...
Teddy Roosevelt was a trump like outsider...He increased the power of the central government ten fold and it has never stopped growing since. he also led the republican party down the rat hole of progressivism.
The next outsider mistake and some think the biggest was Herbert Hoover.....That presidency was blamed for the depression. Hoover was way out of his element and believed he could save the government from it’s self with efficiencies. LOL
The economy never recovered really, until WWII...
Those are the two times that I am aware of the republicans experimenting with outsiders..and yes, it was a grass root thing then as well...
IMO, both were disasters...and both resulted in long periods of democrat rule.
Teddy Roosevelt as an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of NY and and VP really does not qualify as an “outsider”.