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I would like to take a second to break away from the news reporting on this blog and delve into a little political theory. I pose a relatively straightforward question: what is progressivism (or liberalism)? It’s obviously an ideology. But an ideology of what? Of progress? What is progress? What does progress look like? For some, progress would mean going back to the days of the Robber Barons and the Gilded Age, when the US government resembled that of a Third World nation, lacking any real power relative to the Trusts. For most of us who call ourselves progressives, however, that is not what progress looks like. So what is it? For many, “progressivism” is just a term used to … More >>