Thanks for posting this from Ben Smith.
My Grandfather hated the progressives as much as he hated the communists. He died when I was a sophomore in college, and I never got to have a one on one adult to adult discussion with him why he hated the progressives so much.
Flash forward 4+ decades, and I went back to a high school reunion and went with a life long friend to a local museum which was pro union and pro progressive. It didn’t take long to realize what was happening back in pre and post WWI, post WWII.
The progressives, then were out in the open re their hatred of America, our churches and our sense of leaving us alone.
Then, their ultimate goal of taking over our property, our cities, our counties, states and finally America. That goal continues today in a semi covert way.
I recognized some of the surnames of the progressives in the museum pictures/newspapers, and I asked my friend if those in the pictures were grandparents or parents of certain class mates.
He said yes. Later, we discussed that connection with the different reality these people had in high school and apparently continued into their late adulthood, according to him. He had thought that they were just life long liberal democrats.
Armed with this history, that night at the reunion, we confronted some of the progressives at the reunion and dinner. None of them denied being progressives. One big bully throughout highschool got so mad, he left the dinner shortly after the salad was served along with my question and challenge to him.
Since then, I have studied the progressive movement to learn about them and somehow ended up on a local progressive email list for a while. Now, I understand why my Grandfather hated progressives so much. He had to live around those treasonous bastards for decades of his adult life.
Thanks for posting what you did.
Bttt!