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Essay: Old progressives, new "right" (view source)
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{{Essay By|LT}}
{{Essay By|LT}}
[[File:Wilson.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Foremost progressive president and leader [[Woodrow Wilson]] coined the term "America First."]]
One of the remarkable, or rather unremarkable political transformations within less than the past decade was the shift of mainstream "right-wing politics" away from classical liberalism, individualism, freedom, and towards hedonistic government activism. At one point caricatured as the stooge of big business unconcerned with the "common people," the right soon competed with the left for the image of populism against the elites, bringing about the destruction of its old, traditional, or shall we say ''conservative'' principles in whoring after the wondrous secular civil power.
One of the remarkable, or rather unremarkable political transformations within less than the past decade was the shift of mainstream "right-wing politics" away from classical liberalism, individualism, freedom, and towards hedonistic government activism. At one point caricatured as the stooge of big business unconcerned with the "common people," the right soon competed with the left for the image of populism against the elites, bringing about the destruction of its old, traditional, or shall we say ''conservative'' principles in whoring after the wondrous secular civil power.