Is Bernie Sanders channeling Teddy Roosevelt? Having recently re-watched Ken Burns\u2019 in-depth biography, The Roosevelts,<\/a> I am struck by the similarities\u2014both in substance and in style.<\/p>\n I started thinking about this comparison as I watched Burns\u2019 old-time film snippets of Teddy Roosevelt\u2014particularly those documenting him on the campaign stump. Roosevelt, known affectionately as TR, was a fighter. In the film clips, his body language shows a man leaning into his arguments, gesticulating for emphasis, speaking forcefully and intently\u2014all of this in a less-than-Adonis-like body.<\/p>\n The similarity to Bernie Sanders\u2019 outspoken, forceful, vigorous and passionate campaign persona is uncanny.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n