DevotedDemocrat
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« on: October 26, 2013, 02:32:49 PM » |
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I've noticed that there has been a big backlash in politics/revisionist history basically damning Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as horrible Presidents, demons even. Yet for decades Republicans--including Ronald Reagan--adored TR, and many on the Left and some on the Right admired Wilson (Nixon loved Wilson, Wilsonian foreign policy shaped the bulk of the 20th century). But in recent years there's been an almost total revision in opinions wherein these men are demonized, not so much for their politics, as for their personal characteristics (IE Wilson's racism).
But I do wonder if the demonization of TR and Wilson started with the Tea Party and has become simply now "accepted" as part of this country's hard rightward turn in the recent years?
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