That’s kind of a nonsequitur. People like Martin Dies and Reagan were nothing like people such as Wilson (who equated socialism with democracy), FDR, Hiss and their ilk who held power in that party; and RINOs were certainly around back then, e.g. Arthur Larson, who wrote “A Republican Looks At his Party” infamously mimicking Communist sympathizer Dean Acheson (author of “A Democrat Looks At his Party”).
You may not have understood what I meant when I said “progressives” were already bad.
Progressivism from its earliest days was opposed to our system of governance. It was more in line with the French Republic (that clown Wilson credited the French with the ideals in their Rights of Man essay and neglected our own founding ... which was far better and wiser).
I’m not saying that progressives were good after any fashion. Not even the 19th century sort. But even a treacherous, faithless, oath-of-office-taking-in-vain scumbag like FDR (who was, incidentally, also the master of corruption and quid pro quo) is not quite in the same category of simply Hell-bound awfulness that rules the DNC today.
Actually, since the DNC is run by those the Cultural Marxist shat out I would go so far to say that in their inability to sustain a civilization and a nation they are even worse than the ChiComs they now actively serve (no being a powerful Democrat without getting your 30 pieces of silver).