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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]].<ref>For more detailed information, see [https://archive.org/details/bossplatthisnewy0000gosn Boss Platt and His New York Machine] by Harold F. Gosnell.</ref> 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]].<ref>For more detailed information, see [https://archive.org/details/bossplatthisnewy0000gosn Boss Platt and His New York Machine] by Harold F. Gosnell.</ref> 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."<ref>May 5, 1918. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/05/98262647.pdf]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved March 23, 2023.</ref> During this time period, various socialist, Communist, anarchist, and syndicalist groups alike posed national security threats, which were seized upon by Progressives to repress freedom. The instigator and namesake of the Palmer Raids, [[A. Mitchell Palmer]], a chief Woodrow Administration member working for the president who sought [https://fee.org/articles/the-palmer-raids-america-s-forgotten-reign-of-terror/ "young, militant, progressive and fearless"] individuals. Mitchell unsuccessfully [https://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-20&chapter=4 vied for U.S. Senate in 1914 against right-wing GOP senator Boies Penrose], and regarded by numerous sources as a [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Progress/Ao0eAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a.+mitchell+palmer+progressive&pg=RA8-PA9&printsec=frontcover noted] [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Woodrow_Wilson/xOZVsyO4K2cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a.+mitchell+palmer+progressive&pg=PA190&printsec=frontcover progressive] [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hard_Right_Turn/pPwdCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a.+mitchell+palmer+progressive&pg=PA106&printsec=frontcover leader], is remembered in history textbooks as the same supposed reactionary against leftists, yet was on the left himself!

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."<ref>May 5, 1918. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/05/98262647.pdf]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved March 23, 2023.</ref> During this time period, various socialist, Communist, anarchist, and syndicalist groups alike posed national security threats, which were seized upon by Progressives to repress freedom. The instigator and namesake of the Palmer Raids, [[A. Mitchell Palmer]], a chief Woodrow Administration member working for the president who sought [https://fee.org/articles/the-palmer-raids-america-s-forgotten-reign-of-terror/ "young, militant, progressive and fearless"] individuals. Mitchell unsuccessfully [https://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-20&chapter=4 vied for U.S. Senate in 1914 against right-wing GOP senator Boies Penrose], and regarded by numerous sources as a [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Progress/Ao0eAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a.+mitchell+palmer+progressive&pg=RA8-PA9&printsec=frontcover noted] [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Woodrow_Wilson/xOZVsyO4K2cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a.+mitchell+palmer+progressive&pg=PA190&printsec=frontcover progressive] [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hard_Right_Turn/pPwdCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a.+mitchell+palmer+progressive&pg=PA106&printsec=frontcover leader], is remembered in history textbooks as the same supposed reactionary against leftists, yet was on the left himself! Many seeming political contradictions in the present are a direct result of drastic political transformations rooted in the ripples of the New Deal and effects of World War II, when federal government-instituted, top-down free-market restrictions and wartime price controls alienated "old" progressives, who subsequently joined forces with the right in Jeffersonian revolt.

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