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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.