[Defiant]

Teddy Roosevelt was the Karl Rove of his day, deciding that the Howard Taft wing of his party wasn’t progressive enough, and so sabotaging it only to elect a socialist. That socialist, Wilson, gave us the income tax, direct election of Senators and prohibition. I would add voting by women to that list, but I would hear no end of it if I did.

[rellimpank]

--IMHO, he also got us into WW 1, changing it from a relative stalemate, into defeat for Germany leading to the rise of Hitler and Lenin , etc., etc.,---

--I agree that he was a domestic disaster but it is insignificant compared to the effect on the U.S. and the world in the longer view---