The first president who actually enacted progressive policies and embraced the antidemocratic, antibusiness rhetoric of the progressive movement wasn’t a Democrat. He was a Republican, one of the most popular in American history: Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was so zealous about creating a Washington, D.C.–based empire that he destroyed the Republican Party in 1912 to do it, running a mad, quixotic campaign against his former friend, William Howard Taft, that guaranteed the election of Woodrow Wilson.
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Progressives actually do believe in equality for everyone—as long as everyone is equally strong, brilliant, and “Nordic.” Progressives may talk a lot about fighting for the rights of African-Americans, disabled Americans, and other minorities now, but the movement from which they continue to claim inspiration fought for exactly the opposite: their lynching, their sterilization and abortion, and their political neutralization. In perhaps less offensive and less overt ways than a century ago, that fight continues today.
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The reality is that it’s progressives, not conservatives, who have been backers of authoritarians throughout history, from Hitler to Mussolini to Stalin.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, cofounder of the NAACP, called the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany “absolutely necessary to get the state in order.”
Joseph P. Kennedy, father of Jack, Bobby, and Teddy, was a legendary apologist for the Nazis, a truth that the mainstream media glossed over for years.
Source: Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (2016) by Glenn Beck.
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