re: Question for O-T Historians about Donald Trump....

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eddy was a fantasizing teenage boy in a man's body. He wanted to play war hero and cowboys & indians in real life. Don't see the connection here.

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In 1886, Roosevelt criticized the morals of Indians he had seen:

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. Turn three hundred low families of New York into New Jersey, support them for fifty years in vicious idleness, and you will have some idea of what the Indians are. Reckless, revengeful, fiendishly cruel, they rob and murder, not the cowboys, who can take care of themselves, but the defenseless, lone settlers on the plains.[178]

. Roosevelt "straddled the immigration question",[172] taking the position that "we cannot have too much immigration of the right sort, and we should have none whatever of the wrong sort"

but failing to win the nomination in 1912. He founded his own party, the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party, and called for wide-ranging progressive reforms. The split allowed the Democrats to win the White House and Congress in 1912

-Roosevelt

Starting to seem familiar now?