Progressive party stood for one thing and Wallace another. Actually the party organization was controlled from the outset by those representing the radical left and not liberalism per se. This made it extremely easy for Communists and fellow travelers to infiltrate into important positions within the party machinery. Once this happened, party stands began to resemble a party line. Campaign literature, speech materials, and campaign slogans sounded strangely like echoes of what Moscow wanted to hear. As if wearing moral blinkers, Wallace increasingly became an imperceptive ideologue. Words were uttered by Wallace that did not sound like him, and his performance took on a strange Jekyll and Hyde quality—one moment he was a peace protagonist and the next a propaganda parrot for the Kremlin.
Yes, you are very correct! Nice history lesson!
The term progressive goes back much farther in US history than 1948........to before the turn of the 19th century....progressives weren’t liberals/socialists/communists back then.......
Side note:
While attending a Townhall meeting this past summer, I was assualted by a lady wearing a “Progressive Democrats for America” t shirt........
I had asked her about the organization, and she described it in glowing terms.... when I said that “Progressive was a term most often used by Socialists and Communists groups, which one are you? She blew up and punched me.......LOLOLOLOL
Searching PDFA’s website shows the usual suspects, far, far lefty and communist types.....wanna tee a socialist off.....call em a socialist....works every time!