He was a reaction to the scumbags that ran the country at the time- like Frick and J.P. Morgan!
The comments about Theodore Roosevelt are beyond ignorant, a gross slander and hysterical nonsense.
* TR shared no values of Barack Obama. None.
* TR was, most emphatically, never a Dictator.
* TR was not the first progressive POTUS, as the GOP since Lincoln were progressives; that being the ideology of the party since Fremont in 1856.
* TR was hardly at the root of executive malfeasance.
Teddy Roosevelt’s “History of the United States” in his own words and arranged by Daniel Ruddy w/a Forward from Edmund Morris, capture his sentiments regarding governance. He wrote: “The Republican Party does not belong to the Corporations. Rather it is Lincoln’s Party of plain people, who do not desire injustice to anyone. While I do not say that the people are infallible, I do say that our history shows that the American people are more often sound in their decisions than is the case w/any of the governmental bodies to whom, for their convenience, they have delegated portions of their ultimate power.”