McKinley was assassinated after being caught up in the Spanish-American War. Note that T Roosevelt kept most of McKinley’s people.
And Progressives then were not exactly what we think of as Progressives today, by a long shot.
jjotto: "And Progressives then were not exactly what we think of as Progressives today, by a long shot."
I'm sorry, I can't sign on to this. In a Senate Speech, Laurence Sherman noted that "Suffice it to know Philip Dru is an autobiography of the colonel himself and solves the Conundrum how to get rid of the Constitution."
Going back to Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, very little has changed about the progressives. They have always hated the Constitution and that is just the same today. Progressives hate the constitution. The only difference is the methods, which are merely clothing the emperor swaps out when necessity dictates to try to achieve the purpose.
In reality, the emperor has no clothes.
And that doesn't really scratch the surface of the charge that Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were hidden communists.
fieldmarshaldj: "I don’t really see a difference between Communism and “Progressivism.”"
Most of us don't see differences between communism and fascism either. Yet they are there and academically they are important points of discussion.
Just because there are differences though, doesn't mean they are exceptionally great at the end of the day. Government tyranny is government tyranny. Still, even Theodore Roosevelt was a globalist.