Elites like Theodore Roosevelt wanted Populists shot

Evidence

In his private diaries, for instance, Theodore Roosevelt looked forward to Populists being “put up against the wall and shot,” since their campaign was nothing less “than an appeal to the torch.” — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 61

Categorization

• CANDY: A darkly entertaining nugget: Teddy Roosevelt privately wished to see Populists executed—useful for puncturing progressive nostalgia.
• XREF: connects to: Roosevelt’s hypermasculinity politicized violent manhood by appealing to status-anxious men — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 38; Gilded Age elites circumscribed democracy to protect their economic regime — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 343

Broader Connections

• Roosevelt’s hypermasculinity politicized violent manhood by appealing to status-anxious men #corroborates (0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 38
• Gilded Age elites circumscribed democracy to protect their economic regime #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 343