“You are forgetting about Woodrow Wilson.”
You’re ‘forgetting’ Teddy Roosevelt, who was the one who initiated the changes that Woodrow Wilson routinely gets blamed for by historical illiterates like Glenn Beck and Dinesh D’Souza. The income tax amendment, the national monetary commission that led to the Federal Reserve System, both were sponsored by Teddy during his presidency.
It’s not a coincidence that TR ran on the 1912 Progressive Party ticket, splitting the GOP vote between himself and William Howard Taft. Teddy was a progressive, as many Republicans of his day were.
If someone had tackled Leon Czolgosz before he could fire his pistol, the world would be a vastly different place today.
As are many Republicans today. Scratch a career Republican politician and you will find a progressive under that skin. The only true Republicans are those that had a career before politics. Rand Paul is a shining example.
I didn’t forget TR. Wilson is just far more reprehensible, being the racist that he was and a New World Order dictator, at heart.