Show this quote to any asshole who says that we should just accept Trump’s presidency because that is the “American” thing to do.
The end of that quote (which is real, it would seem from a quick google search) is, “Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
Seems apt.
This quote comes from an editorial he wrote for the Kansas City Star, “Sedition, A Free Press, and Personal Rule“, originally published May 7, 1918. You can read all of them in a nice .PDF file here. Quote is on page 149. There’s lots of fantastic quotes in there in regards to war, patriotism and journalism.
Teddy was a damn respectable guy. If only modern Republicans would learn from his example.
Man I think you’re misreading the quote trying to use it to justify something. I mean Trump WAS voted in. You don’t have to agree with his policies and you don’t have to stand with him, that’s true for all presidents. But you SHOULD accept that Trump was voted as the next President. Don’t live in denial, man. America is still a democracy and that democracy is what got him so far. If he leads, that’s because he went through an American process.
If this talk of him possibly losing presidency to the electoral college is true, that’s a constitutional process. But to say “It’s not the american thing to do because I don’t like him” is the worst. You have a right to not side with him. You don’t have the right to just ignore that he’s been elected as the new commander in chief. You want to try to find ways to take him out of the chair do so by all means. I’m no huge fan of trump either. But to say him getting this far is anti-american? Come on man.