That's a pretty tortuous article to follow. Basically, a group of "liberals" want to Conservative Democrats to be in the van against the Republican Party while jettisoning their "progressive" loony elements but holding on to he word "liberal."
Was that clear?
Not with my syntax...
When words such as "liberal" get redefined, it does make things difficult to understand.
I always thought that the progressive tag came into vogue as the democrats were trying to run from the mess they left on the word liberal.
That or when it became apparent what the liberals really stood for, the people began hating liberals so they had to resort to a new word that wasn't "dirty".
I hope he helps diminish the worst leftist/collectivists from the Democrat party.
The old republican party, was all about big govt. But during the progressive era, the Rockefeller/Morgan interests backed ALL the canidates. IE, of three Warburg brothers, one backed Wilson, one backed TR, and one backed Taft. Paul Warburg of the Morgan interests is who wrote the Fed'l Reserve Act in total secrecy at Jekyll Island.
Today Morgan/Chase supports leftist whack-org ACORN, one of the worst, right up there with La Raza, Moveon and Codepink. Of course they coerced many banks to grant them support via the egregious Community Reinvestment Act as their lever.
Bottomline is that progressives from BOTH parties sold America out to special interests, primarily the largest NE banking concerns, substantial co-ownerships & controls of which rested in the Int'l Banking House of Rothschild of which the Warburgs were married into and also controlled by.
By the century's turn, progressives had already been trading with all the largest European and especially German corps like IG Farben, taking stock interests in each other, partnerships etc. even thru the 30's.
Std Oil sold Hitler oil before and during the war. America's wealthiest elites cared not for ideology except to the extent with which it could gird and enhance their power and wealth, as they envied the euro-dictors for acheiving.
And thus these interests put in politicians sympathetic to their gaining from Govt subsidies, barriers to competitive entry via regulations, tarrifs and price controls - all to the detriment of taxpayers.