I know it&#x27;s fashionable to have a defeatist view of current american politics, but I honestly don&#x27;t see how the current political climate in the United States is any more dysfunctional than the American political machinations of the early 1900&#x27;s that led to the election of Teddy Roosevelt, a notorious &quot;strongman&quot; in high office, who after being &quot;disappointed&quot; by his chosen successor, and then friend, Taft decided to run for a third-term in high office. And to suggest Dorothy Thompson would be ignorant of, then recent, political history seems misguided.