Or be in favor of taking down his statue, pathetic. He’s a “Lincoln Project” traitor like that POS Kellyanne Conway sleeps with. Honestly, Carville’s marriage makes more sense to me than that.
Anyway back to TR, I’ll note that due to his popularity he is claimed by the left (kinda like what some on the right do with JFK). Ask a libtard and they’ll say TR was the last “good” Republican President.
TR of course died before his cousin was more than an Assistant Sec of the Navy but they appeared to enjoy warm relations (Teddy loved his niece Eleanor) and even gave his blessing for FDR to run for state Senate as a rat (even if he wished he weren’t one), it sounded to me like the district was GOP leaning and an unkind word from TR could have nipped Franklin’s career right in the ass (Eleanor had no compunction about trying to wreck her cousin TR “Jr.” when he ran for Governor of NY, she went out of her way to troll his campaign).
For his part Frank bent over backwards invoking TR whenever he could, very like every weaselous Kennedy. If TR had not been President we would likely have never heard of Franklin.
Teddy & Frank (& Eleanor) may have had warm relations, but it didn’t extend to Teddy’s children and the cousins. They were bitter political enemies. Teddy’s progeny was more right-leaning. Unfortunately, as with the ruling class, after a few generations, TR’s line became like the Hapsburg imbecile Spanish King Charles II (maybe not physically, but intellectually - like the Bushes).
Mark Roosevelt and his second cousin, Susan Roosevelt Weld (ex-wife of Slick Willie Weld) are both ultraleft nutters (Mark ran against Weld in ‘94, losing in a massive landslide. The entire time I was up in MA during the last week or so of the election cycle, the only place I ever saw a Mark Roosevelt for Governor sign was in the North End of Boston). Mark’s father was Kermit, Jr., helped depose Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953. Mark himself is now ensconced in the corrupt higher ed today, previously running the now-notorious Antioch College from 2011-15 and now at St. John’s College–Santa Fe since 2016. Susan is also an “educator” and was notorious for trying to bring down Sen. Jesse Helms in 1996 (but he had the last laugh).