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Great Moments in Progressivism: This week millions are tuning in for lovingly rendered portraits of three multimillionaire dynastic politicians Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. We’re told that Teddy was a crusader against economic privilege, for example by supposedly using expansive new executive powers to control railroad fares, supposedly in the interest of greater fairness. Of course, during his time in office, Theodore Roosevelt also used expansive new executive powers to fight repeated brutal counter-insurgency wars, and, among other things, killed about quarter million Filipino civilians. But hey, what’s a few hundred thousand dead foreigners, when Americans might be getting a bit of a raw deal on their railroad ticket? #ACovenantWithDeathAndAnAgreementWithHell #AbolishThePresidency