[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: From a purely devious viewpoint, FDR's work here is masterful.

[FreedomPoster]

I don’t say often enough how much I appreciate your ongoing series. Thanks.

[SeeSharp]

The rebranding had to take place because of ideological links between Progressivism and the Nazi’s. They chose “Librealism” as their new brand for a simple reason. They wanted to glom onto a legacy of achievement that wasn’t theirs.

[Wallace T.]

As much as I dislike Mark Levin and Glenn Beck for their Never Trumpism, they have done a good job in exposing the roots of progressivism in the early 20th Century on their radio shows, websites, and books. Those who blame Millennials, the hippie movement, the Frankfurt School, or the 1930s Communist movement for the decline of this country fail to take the full perspective. All these factors are contributory, but it was progressivism that first eroded the Constitutional basis of this republic. The Progressive movement arose among the Northeastern elite, and their satellites in the Midwest and West. The breeding grounds were the Ivy League universities and like minded colleges like Stanford in California. This was the environment out of which Woodrow Wilson and both Roosevelts came.

Liberalism in the original sense was a philosophy of limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom. Robert Taft, Sr., Grover Cleveland, and Thomas Jefferson were liberals in the original and proper sense. The best way to describe it would be as a small-l libertarian philosophy, though culturally conservative.