[nicollo]

I agree with you about Trump being a disrupter like TR.

Too bad, thought, that TR’s disruptions promoted the leftist, progressive agenda.

Trump, yes, TR, not admirable.

[Rockingham]

I think that TR and Republican urban progressives are too often misunderstood by conservatives today and get lumped in with Wilson and the Democratic party's progressives. For the most part, TR and the Republican progressives were not anti-business but wanted honest and effective police, honest business practices, clean water, reliable sanitary sewers, and healthy, properly labeled food and beverages.

Moreover, TR and the GOP progressive movement were fundamentally pro-free enterprise and not socialist in their thinking and aims. They were reformers, not radicals or revolutionaries. And they were strongly pro-American, with TR especially determined to see America's Navy become capable of global operations to protect American business and commerce.

Notably, from the Civil War until the Depression, the Democrats and Socialism were marginalized by the success of GOP policies and the effectiveness of GOP Presidents and Congresses. The Depression upended American politics and gave the Left a long era of power, growing roots and tendrils that remain in place and continue to sustain them.