Didn’t even read cuz the title alone is stupid. McKinley was killed and TR won. Garfield (a reformer) was killed and an R who was thought NOT to be a reformer, Arthur, came in and was every bit as gung ho as Garfield.
And in this case, Trump benefits mightily. Spencer is historically wrong.
"Theodore Roosevelt was also one of the founding figures of today’s gargantuan and out-of-control federal state"
It is simply a fact that Theodore Roosevelt 26 led the largest peacetime expansion of government in U.S. history.(up until that time) Every time King Teddy the First had the chance, he increased the size and scope of the federal government. If congress wouldn't play ball, he used his royal scepter and decreed it.
It's about time we face this fact and stop hiding from it. We would NOT have a deep state at all except for Theodore Roosevelt. The FBI was blatantly unconstitutional, much less anything else he did.
As of now, the President who has arguably done the most to undo Theodore Roosevelt's disastrous record as President has been ............... (drum roll) ........ Donald Trump 45.
MAGA all the way baby!
Spencer also refers to “staunch Democrat John Wilkes Booth”.
In fact the only political party that Booth was ever active in was the Native American Party, better known as the Know Nothing party. It ran from the 1840s to 1860 when it merged into the Republicans.
If you have seen movie The Gangs of New York, that’s the party of Bill the Butcher, the character played by Daniel Day Lewis.