Tag: Teddy Roosevelt

• “Demagogue!” “Dangerous Egotist!” – No, This Isn’t About Trump

  This person was called a “demagogue” and a “dangerous egotist.” Let’s get out our Google dictionary to get a good definition of demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.  Does that sound like anyone in the US 2016 presidential race? How about…

  sassevn

  March 4, 2016

  Current Events, History & Culture

  2016 presidential election, demagogue, mud-slinging, nasty political campaigns of history, Roosevelt, taft, Teddy Roosevelt, Trump

• Know Your History: Get rid of the bum, Teddy Roosevelt!

  In one of those ironic, funny moments in history, Teddy Roosevelt unexpectedly became president of the United States in September of 1901 when President William McKinley died of an assassins bullet. Why was it ironic and funny? Certainly not because of McKinley’s death, which was tragic and heart-breaking for the country. It was ironic and…

  sassevn

  August 6, 2015

  History & Culture

  Gilded Age, mckinley, monopoly, Pan-Am exposition, progressivism, Teddy Roosevelt