Let us not forget that Progressive Republican Presidents, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, preceded VERY Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Income tax, direct elect Senators, and the FED were products of Progressive Republicans.
Roosevelt’s Political party Republican (1880–1911; 1916–1919)
Other political
affiliations Progressive “Bull Moose” (1912–1916)
By the time he became President, he was a full Rino/Progressive Bull Moose.