Well, TR was always more interested in a good struggle than “the easy way”. He apparently overcame asthma as a child through sheer willpower, and organized the Rough Riders to participate in active combat. To this very amateur historian, he seems like the sort who would have been disappointed in himself for not personally giving Richard Spencer that bust in the chops. And I’m quite certain that his response to Charlottesville would not have included the phrase “very fine people on both sides”…
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