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{{cquote|While Progressives enacted numerous positive reforms, some of their goals were questionable. While they did seek to make the United States government more democratic '''and to protect U.S. workers''', they also sought to force their social and political beliefs on others. '''Progressives opposed immigration and enacted several immigration restrictions during the 1920s.''' Progressives also tried to force immigrants to adopt Progressive moral beliefs. One way they tried to accomplish this was through settlement houses. Settlement houses existed in most major cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were places where immigrants could go to receive free food, clothing, job training, and educational classes. While all of these items greatly helped immigrants, Progressives also used the settlement houses to convince immigrants to adopt Progressive beliefs, causing the foreigners to forsake their own culture. '''During the 1920s, many Progressives also joined the Ku Klux Klan,''' a self-proclaimed religious group that was to enforce morality, based on Progressive beliefs, on other people.|||Ohio History Central article on the Progressive Movement}}

{{cquote|While Progressives enacted numerous positive reforms, some of their goals were questionable. While they did seek to make the United States government more democratic '''and to protect U.S. workers''', they also sought to force their social and political beliefs on others. '''Progressives opposed immigration and enacted several immigration restrictions during the 1920s.''' Progressives also tried to force immigrants to adopt Progressive moral beliefs. One way they tried to accomplish this was through settlement houses. Settlement houses existed in most major cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were places where immigrants could go to receive free food, clothing, job training, and educational classes. While all of these items greatly helped immigrants, Progressives also used the settlement houses to convince immigrants to adopt Progressive beliefs, causing the foreigners to forsake their own culture. '''During the 1920s, many Progressives also joined the Ku Klux Klan,''' a self-proclaimed religious group that was to enforce morality, based on Progressive beliefs, on other people.|||Ohio History Central article on the Progressive Movement}}

[[File:630px-Theodore Roosevelt in 1918.jpg|thumb|left|280px|T.R., the progressive GOP leader who wrested control of the party from the conservatives of his day and enacted numerous left-wing policies, is a prominent ideological figurehead for contemporary "right-wing" populists.]]

[[File:630px-Theodore Roosevelt in 1918.jpg|thumb|left|260px|T.R., the progressive GOP leader who wrested control of the party from the conservatives of his day and enacted numerous left-wing policies, is a prominent ideological figurehead for contemporary "right-wing" populists.]]

[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!