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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.

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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