This “most imperfect man,” wrote analyst William Bradley, was also a powerful advocate for progressive principles.Those 'priciples' again are ????
Near as I can figure, it involves using other people's money to impose one's own view of how life is to be lived, along with the thoughts one is to 'think' (as in 'PC' thought) while living that proscribed 'life' ...
One might almost call it jackbooted.