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[–] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

New Republic editor Herbert Croly has been the guy cited as the man most responsible for moving liberalism in America away from its anti-statist roots and infusing it with progressivism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Croly

Since the 60s though liberalism has become more radical as it has been captured by minority identity politics.

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[–] weezkitty 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

progressivism

Regressiveism. There is nothing "progressive" about their ass backwards way of thinking

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[–] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Maybe not. But at the time Croly was around America was in the midst of the Progressive Era. He did much to transform liberalism from its classical variant to modern liberalism which substituted protection from the state to using state power to protect people from the ills accompanying big business and industrialization.