For free-market conservatives, Teddy Roosevelt is less a hero than a temptation – a larger-than-life figure whose legacy invites admiration even as it points toward the very expansion of government conservatives resist. That tension is now being exploited by a new generation on the right, eager to wrap progressive antitrust policies in Rooseveltian nostalgia.
For the remaining tribe of free-market, smaller-government conservatives, the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt elicits conflicting impulses.
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