Posted on 11/15/2026 8:26:24 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
BlazeTV host Nick Freitas and Hillsdale College politics professor Dr. Kevin Slack trace how a quiet shift in American government reshaped who actually makes the nation’s laws. Dr. Slack examines how the Progressive Era broke from the founders’ vision of citizenship and self-government, while Nick draws on his years as a state legislator to reveal what happens when lawmakers would rather hand off responsibility than exercise it. They further explain how the consequences reach all the way to Americans’ respect for the rule of law itself.
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Let me guess
Carter bush obammy
Guess...
1. Woodrow Wilson
2. FDR
3. O’bastard
It always comes back to this, because,
It's true.
The facts prove it. Wilson may be the prime culprit, but Progressivism started with the out of control King Teddy I. The truth has a certain ring to it. This won't ever go away, even if I did. There's too many provable facts to make it keep coming back.
Theodore Roosevelt,
William Howard Taft,
and Woodrow Wilson
The “big three” of Progressivism.
I’m thinking your “Bush” guess is Bush II. If so, I very much agree. After 9/11 W had a unique opportunity to humiliate and crush radical Islam. Instead he told us “Islam is peace.”
And so now I’ve got Muslims appearing more and more in my old, rust-belt mill town. Women in hijabs. Halal stores opening.
I don’t know what’s going on here. But I do know my America is slipping away.
“what happens when lawmakers would rather hand off responsibility than exercise it.” Exactly what Rush used to say.
It is fair to say that Wilson is the worst.
The reality is that Wilson leveraged the ball that TR had already got rolling.
Had Teddy never been president at all, Wilson couldn’t have just pedal-to-the-metal with it upon his day 1 in office, it would have been Wilson who would’ve had to spend years getting the ball rolling. Spend years.
The ball was already rolling. Those years were already spent. The Bull Moos’d it.
That also enabled the New Deal years later.
My picks: FDR, LBJ, and Bronco.
Oooh… Good pick with Wilson.
FDR gave us Social Security, the National Firearms Act, and the National Labor Relations Act.
The NLRA legalized extortion and price fixing, but only for labor unions. Organized Crime (AKA labor unions) is the largest money laundering scheme the demoncrats ave yet come up with.
LBJ ... immigration and great society ...
The real perpetrators are never those whose faces and names are publicly known. It never works this way.
The question to ask yourself is: where would the real perpetrators hide?
(hint: think secrecy)
What group did JFK threaten just before he was assassinated?
Obama Wilson and Biden hands down
wilson
fdr
lbj
bammy
Prior to Calvin Coolidge, progressives had no need to hide. They thought they were on top of the world. They flaunted themselves and their ideas openly in books, articles, and speeches.
Now look at them. Progressives are pathetic. Progressives have for over a century used the word “liberal” as camouflage to hide themselves. Every now and then one of them tries reviving the word “progressive” but using the word “liberal” as cover is simply too powerful to ever abandon.
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