“no track record of accomplishment”
I guarantee you that if you lived his life you would have gone into hiding by now.
“It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt The Man In The Arena
I'm VERY familiar with that quote. It hung in my office at work for decades for 40 years.
Associating that quote with Nick Fuentes is just laughable.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ezM2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA298#v=onepage&q&f=false
Two points in especial bear in mind: be actors and not merely critics of others, in the first place, and in the second, do not try to accomplish anything at the very beginning, and then because you fail abandon the effort to accomplish anything.As to the first point criticism is a very good thing, but work is a much better one. It is not the man who sits at home in his parlor, the man who reads his evening paper before the fire and says how bad our politicians are, who ever works an improvement in our municipal government. It is the man who goes out to the primaries and the polls, who attends the meetings of his party organizations, (etc)
Of course we all know what TR meant is that he should never be criticized while he is allowed to criticize anyone else. Typical stench of elitism.
Progressives such as TR or otherwise are such hypocrites, the whole lot of them.