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Essay: Old progressives, new "right" (view source)
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[https://www.uscis.gov/archive/buy-american-and-hire-american-putting-american-workers-first Protecting U.S. workers against foreign competition]... [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jeff-sessions-1924-immigration/512591/ immigration restriction]... sound familiar? It's all the same blather, whether it's the old Progressives or the insurgent "right-wing populists." Also noteworthy, as pointed out by [https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/huey-long-was-wrong/ National Review], was the heaping praise fringe "right-wing" populists gave for... [[Huey Long]], the leading left-wing rabble-rouser of the early 1930s. Anyone researching the dark rabbit hole of their media shouldn't find it hard to see their praise for [[Theodore Roosevelt]], a leading progressive of his time who quarreled with the semi-reactionary [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/03/14/101980857.pdf Platt Machine] ran by conservative [[Stalwart Republicans|Stalwart Republican]] [[Thomas C. Platt]]. In fact, there's an entire "right-wing populist" organization calling itself the [https://archive.is/Ge4Zr Bull Moose Project]; how telling!
[https://www.uscis.gov/archive/buy-american-and-hire-american-putting-american-workers-first Protecting U.S. workers against foreign competition]... [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jeff-sessions-1924-immigration/512591/ immigration restriction]... sound familiar? It's all the same blather, whether it's the old Progressives or the insurgent "right-wing populists." Also noteworthy, as pointed out by [https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/huey-long-was-wrong/ National Review], was the heaping praise fringe "right-wing" populists gave for... [[Huey Long]], the leading left-wing rabble-rouser of the early 1930s. Anyone researching the dark rabbit hole of their media shouldn't find it hard to see their praise for [[Theodore Roosevelt]], a leading progressive of his time who quarreled with the semi-reactionary [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/03/14/101980857.pdf Platt Machine] ran by conservative [[Stalwart Republicans|Stalwart Republican]] [[Thomas C. Platt]]. In fact, there's an entire "right-wing populist" organization calling itself the [https://archive.is/Ge4Zr Bull Moose Project]; how telling!
At one point, the Republican Party stood up for freedom and liberty, which became tarnished by supposed "anti-Communism." When the Sedition Act was passed during the [[Woodrow Wilson]], at the height of the Progressive Movement amidst rampant wartime xenophobia and fervent nationalism, [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/65-2/s247 the primary opponents were Republicans], one of which was [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.|Henry Cabot Lodge]], an archreactionary Boston Brahmin of his time who railed against progressive "reforms." [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/05/98262647.pdf]