This quote will definitely rile up MAGA. Just like when NPR posted the declaration of independence.
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. -Theodore Roosevelt
He’ll be a mixed bag for the MAGAts.
It’s also funny in hindsight considering, you know, segregation and all that
But hey, I guess you could argue they were treated like “all the other” black people in the US
Because they didn’t have an egalitarian utopian society, it’s “funny” if they moralize on anything? Got it. Can’t say I agree with your logic, which would make your own observation here “funny” as we don’t now live in that egalitarian society. In fact no person ever couldn’t be discounted with that logic.
We very much don’t no, so saying it again today would also be funny without taking the steps to make that the reality
I find a lot of today’s leaders very “funny”
Give me one period in time where we couldn’t discount anything our leaders said with your logic? This slight of prose is used by the oligarchy to discount arguments about how they’ve stolen our lunch from the new deal era and post war years.
It’s illogical, but it plays to the mob.
Look, it was just a dumb throwaway comment, don’t overthink it
The oligarchs can rot in hell for all I care. True power comes from the people
Sorry, it’s just a thing I come across all the time evangelizing for restoring the laws of the post war years that kept the rich from taking the lion’s share of economic output and turning us into slaves.
If this isn’t the greatness they are seeking, I wonder how far back you would have to go. Maybe they miss living under the British crown.
Hey, I’ve got an idea. There’s a prince from the British royal family available and I think Britain doesn’t want him anymore.
If the people who need to hear this cared about Teddy, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Roosevelt was more president than we knew how to use at the time
