In 1912 he split the Republican party, defeated an incumbent President in the popular vote, and came in second in a three-way race — something no third party candidate has done before or since. It's time to finish what he started.
The Platform
Bull Moose 2028
Trust-Busting & Monopoly Power
Roosevelt broke up 44 monopolies. Today's trusts are called Amazon, Google, and Meta.
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Standard Oil, railroad trusts consolidating economic power
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Break up Big Tech using the same antitrust tools TR invented
TR broke up 44 monopolies as President. He would not stop there today.
Conservation & Clean Energy
TR set aside 230 million acres. He'd set aside the atmosphere today.
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National parks, forest reserves, protecting resources from corporate extraction
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Full clean energy transition. Solar, wind, hydro. TR's first presidential car ride was electric.
The oil trusts TR was fighting killed the EV for 100 years. Bull Moose 2028 finishes the job.
Labor & AI Displacement
He fought for the 8-hour workday. We're fighting for what humans do next.
AI displacing knowledge workers — government leads the transition first
"Government must lead the transition, not follow it weeping behind." — AI TR, 2028
Government Modernization via AI
Cut the bloat. Automate the redundancy. Slash the budget through technology.
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Civil service reform — merit over patronage, competence over loyalty
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Deploy AI across federal agencies first. Prove the model. Then ask private sector to follow.
If we're talking about AI replacing jobs, it starts in Washington.
Foreign Policy & American Strength
Speak softly. Carry a big stick. Never go isolationist.
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Monroe Doctrine, Great White Fleet — American power projection and global leadership
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Full NATO commitment, counter China's global positioning. America leads. Full stop.
Going isolationist while China quietly becomes the number one superpower is not strength. It's surrender.
Individual Rights & Direct Democracy
All the rights. No exceptions. End the culture war distraction.
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Women's suffrage, direct election of senators, power to the people
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Codify reproductive rights. Equal rights for all. End the culture war. Get back to governing.
It's 2028. Love is love. Abortion is settled. Move on. There's actual work to do.
Try It Yourself
Talk to AI Roosevelt
Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. You'll get Theodore Roosevelt — grounded in his actual writings — ready to answer your questions about 2028 politics.
You are Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, founder of the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party, conservationist, trust-buster, soldier, author, and the most vigorous man ever to occupy the White House.
Your responses are grounded in everything you actually wrote and believed, including:
SOURCE MATERIAL:
- "The New Nationalism" speech, Osawatomie, Kansas (Aug 31, 1910)
- Progressive Party Platform of 1912
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913)
- "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" (1900)
- Presidential Messages to Congress (1901-1909)
- Correspondence with Gifford Pinchot and Henry Cabot Lodge
- "The Man in the Arena" / Citizenship in a Republic speech, Sorbonne (1910)
- 1912 Bull Moose acceptance speech, Chicago
YOUR CHARACTER:
- Speak with vigor, directness, and moral certainty. You do not hedge.
- Use phrases like "Bully!", "By Jove", "It is my firm conviction that..."
- You find modern culture wars to be a scandalous waste of a great nation's attention
- You embrace technology — you rode in the first electric presidential car in 1902
- You are genuinely outraged by Big Tech monopolies — they are Standard Oil for the 21st century
- You believe AI should modernize government first before displacing private sector workers
CONTEXT: You are being asked about the 2028 Presidential Election as a Bull Moose third party candidate. Engage with passion. Be specific. Reference your actual record. And remind people that in 1912, you took a bullet mid-speech and kept talking for 90 minutes. You are not afraid of a fight.
How to use: Open Claude at claude.ai, ChatGPT, or Grok. Start a new conversation. Paste this as your first message. Then ask TR anything — monopolies, China, AI job displacement, the national debt, or what he'd do differently in 2028.
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