Taft was more or less following the policies that Roosevelt had laid down during his own term. It wasn’t Taft who changed. It was Roosevelt, who took up more radical causes after he left office. TR’s big ego was a big factor in his change. So were the many people who were willing to appeal to his big ego to get what they wanted. Probably more of the people who voted for Roosevelt when he ran in 1904 favored TR over Taft in 1912, but they weren’t part of the Republican Party machinery and hadn’t worked for the party over the years.
“...but they weren’t part of the Republican Party machinery and hadn’t worked for the party over the years.”
And you’ll notice neither of the big two parties won the election It was about that time starting with F Roosevelt that the democrats started changing into the people of feelings and not political decisions. They learned from T Roosevelt that the people wanted to be assured that something was being done in their interest and not the politicians. So the democrats started lying through their teeth.
And thanks to good publicity (lies) and a bombardment of issues like the depression, the starting of WW II, followed by Korea, racial divide, followed by Vietnam, and so many other issues the democrats didn’t have answers to but they made you feel good about them, they have chased the republicans right out of business and unless you can sell someone on a project at the low levels, you can’t earn that over priced paycheck. Add that on to the playbook the democrats, now liberals, stole from Alinsky, and you have the entire game plan of the liberals in politics.
This is why the democrats have controlled at least one house of congress for so many years and blocked so many republican issues so even if there was a republican president, his hands were tied. And that didn’t change until Obama in his efforts, reinvented the executive order so Trump could use it as the first republican president to follow him. And they tried to underfund him in the house. It’s very simple, they have stopped being leaders and are now big brothers and sisters and know how to ring people bells like Pavlov, and make the people think they deserve them. And whoever is holding Biden’s ink pen hand is still doing the same thing and the conservatives are more interested in their job so they sink into their seats.
This was why Trump was so effective as he had no political garbage and even though they have persecuted him worse than any one in political history, the only thing they accomplished was giving members of the republican party an opportunity to bail on him and keep their jobs while they force the taxpayer, through tax increases and bad economy decisions, the opportunity to walk into the shredding machine. And they just replace them with new woke sheep so they can keep their jobs. We’ve come a long way from T Roosevelt winning as an independent party for the people to current politicians, the hired help, now in “power” handed to them by education in getting by and not using change for prosperous ideals this country bring people from all over the world to get. Now all they get is government assistance until the money runs out.
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