President Theodore Roosevelt
“Of all corruption, the most far-reaching for evil is that which hides itself behind the mask of furious demagoguery, seeking to arouse and to pander to the basest passions of mankind.”
Wannabe President Donald Trump
TR disliked windbags, fakers, demagogues and phonies in general. His Trump was William Jennings Bryan–politician, famous orator, later infamous for the Scopes Trial–who in 1908, Roosevelt’s last year in office, was running for President against William Howard Taft, Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor. In a long letter, TR told Bryan what he thought of him. (Cited in The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, by Douglas Brinkley.) (Trump photo credit Michael Vadon.)
Beyond the Zeitgeist 