“and a rejection of proven realities.”
You’re getting carried away. That’s the exact opposite of pragmatism.
“Seeing evil succeed is what gets pragmatists going.”
Going where?
Play poker for a few years. You’ll understand all about pragmatism.
Pragmatists reject faith, and they manipulate history by taking the context of faith out of it—only what they experience and how they personally interpret it is “real” to them, thus reinforcing their personal prejudices.
I have not seen a single instance of pragmatism building the USA up; it looks to me like the beginnings of liberalism couched in pretty arguments based in limited-dimensional viewpoints of events. The poker analogy only reinforces my current viewpoint. I’ll stick with the Founding Fathers, for my part.