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TheRealNorth

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12. I would say the last decent one was Eisenhower.

Reply to allegorical oracle (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 14, 2022, 02:38 PM

Jan 2022

But before Ike, I would go back to Teddy Roosevelt (although he had a lot of faults when it came to his Imperialism).

When you consider Teddy broke away from the Republicans in 1912 because he saw the corporate powers having too much power in the Republican Party, that says something.

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