It’s just off-the-cuff writing without copyediting. Tad sloppy, but weird hate, homie.

E: To squarely address my view of Teddy K, he’s in the same bucket as Karl Marx, Otto Von Bismarck, Rasputin, etc. Not someone whose core values I share, or think is a good person — but a historically interesting character who has cultural symbolic importance for the role they played in their respective time and place.

It was pretty clear from context.

As a person of average intelligence, I knew exactly what the acronym was. Not sure the issue here.

Yikes.