The Presidency Teddy Roosevelt Would Not Recognize (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

Theodore Roosevelt believed presidential power should be energetic, consequential, and directed toward the public good. More than a century later, the presidency remains a vessel for enormous personal and political energy—but the purpose toward which that energy is directed has changed.What would Roosevelt recognize in the modern presidency? And what might leave him wondering what became of his stewardship of the office?— Dunneagin📖 To read the text of this essay and explore the catalog, visit Civics Unhinged on Paragraph.☕ Reader editions and collected volumes—including Volumes 1, 2, 3, and The Liar’s Guide to Autocracy—are available on the Fourthwall bookshelf.Reader and listener correspondence is always welcome at [email protected]. Questions, observations, or a note on how you first stumbled into the chronicle are particularly appreciated.— F.P. Dunneagin | Civics Unhinged Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe